When the Japanese cabinet urgently convened to discuss the terms of the American armistice, the Joint Chiefs of Staff discussion on the defense of Hawaii Island was entering deep waters, and Ingram, who had arrived from the front line, gave a comprehensive introduction:

…… Through the airlift organized by Chennault, all the wounded from the attack on Pearl Harbor have arrived on the West Coast for treatment, some homeless people have also been properly arranged, and the long-lasting fire has finally stopped after being poured into the Pacific Ocean, but the social order of Pearl Harbor is far from being restored to the pre-attack period, and the overall environmental and social management is in shambles. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Military control and curfews were imposed throughout the Hawaiian Islands, and the troops were on high nervous strain, and they hurried to hoard all kinds of supplies and rush to repair the relevant defense systems, but in Ingram's view, it was far from enough.

At present, the internal and external transportation of Pearl Harbor is maintained by air, and he believes that once the Japanese fleet is free, it will be necessary to put a big question mark on maintaining this transportation line -- the Japanese army only needs to deploy an air fleet to intercept the air traffic between Hawaii and the West Coast. The bulky, weak transport aircraft force could not be a match for carrier-based aircraft, and with the distance between Hawaii and the West Coast, there was no ability to send escort aircraft; Chennault experimented with night flights, not to mention the small number of crews that could perform night flights, and it was unknown whether night flights could evade Japanese interception.

Doolittle, who has carried out night bombing, believes that according to the current situation, it is certain that it is certain to organize a small number of planes to carry out night transportation, but it is not possible to carry more planes, but it is of little significance to transport small quantities of goods at present, because Pearl Harbor needs large quantities of materials, let alone a few planes to smuggle them, and there is no way to organize a strategic airlift of 1,000 planes, so it must be transported by sea.

Taking the nearly 1,000 strategic airlift sorties in the past few days as an example, it seems that the momentum is not small, but in fact what Pearl Harbor has obtained is extremely limited, at best it has only obtained more than 2,000 tons of aviation fuel, 120 new P-51, P-47, and F4U fighters and relevant pilots have been added, and the number of B-29 heavy bombers has increased by less than 20. It's not that the army doesn't want to increase, the more it increases, the more fuel it consumes, and the fuel required for a B-29 and 5 fighters can't withstand it.

After this toss, there are only 443 planes that can still fight in Hawaii (not distinguishing between land and sea aviation, but excluding transport planes, reconnaissance planes, water reconnaissance, etc.), but there are more than 800 pilots, although the level is mostly poor, but it seems that the momentum is not small, especially the batch of carrier-based aircraft pilots trained by the Hainan Airlines have lost all their aircraft carriers, and now they have completely become land-based pilots.

Ingram believes that it is difficult for even self-defense with this level of air force, let alone counterattack, and demands that the air force and related fuel and accessories be increased as much as possible, and the overall air force should be expanded to at least five times more than the current one.

But if you want to expand, you must send a material fleet, even if there are still 8 or 9 escort aircraft carriers on the west coast, even if Los Angeles has prepared a material fleet, but now the Pacific Fleet, whose main forces are all gone, has completely become a squatting fleet, where can you dare to go to sea?

Li Hai said that the Navy has urgently renovated 14 small shark submarines, each submarine can transport about 400 tons of fuel or 10 fighter parts (including engines) at a time, but this is far from meeting Hawaii's requirements, and the submarine transportation is too slow, a single delivery takes more than 10 days, but it is okay to send it once under a multi-pronged approach, Ingram agreed to this "submarine express" in line with the principle that no matter how small a fly is, it is meat, and only asked them to be careful, maybe the enemy will block the shipping lane.

As a result, the Battle of Hawaii became an unsolvable circle: to defend Hawaii, it was necessary to have sufficient air power; And without oil and crew, all the planes are blind; But the fleet is not there, and it is impossible to transport supplies on a large scale...... The problem is all stuck on the conveyor line.

So Turner had to re-elaborate on the "Los Angeles Express", "San Francisco Express", "Multi-Route Fleet Split-up", and "Single Boat Smuggling" plans that he had sold to Spruance, but Turner was a little less confident now - after seeing the Japanese army's fierce night bombing capabilities, the original plans immediately became very risky.

After discussing for a long time, everyone had no clue, and finally only reached 3 opinions:

First, until the air freight is accurately intercepted, it will continue to be maintained;

Second, first use a small number of submarine forces to transport a trip, and if the effect is good, then modify it in large quantities;

Thirdly, if the first two methods are unsuccessful, try the express method and the multi-fleet method - this is clearly a very sacrificial mode of transport.

Originally, Clark wanted to take the opportunity to talk about the army's defense, but suddenly realized that there was no need to talk about it at all, and now he could not even guarantee the resources needed for the army's aviation, and he could not talk about supporting the army's ground forces at all.

Ingram's estimate this time is very accurate, Horiyoshi, who led the whole army back to the division, is already making a full deployment to seal the entire Hawaii, and the most important thing is the breaking of diplomatic relations between Hawaii and the West Coast.

After the various fleets converged, Horiyoshi's car and the general flagship of the Combined Fleet were reverted to the Yamato, and a military meeting was held on it, and before the meeting, a scene was staged in which Kakuharu Tsunoda was guilty of the guilt. Tsunoda felt that he had been involved in the entire Second Air War in the fuel shortage incident, which made Horikichi a lot of headaches, and also made Hero Yano take a huge risk, so he felt very unhappy and made a public review at the meeting.

is talking about tears, regretting not being at the beginning, and bowing again and again.

However, Horikichi didn't take this matter to heart, and kept silent, just asking about the bombing of Seattle and Boeing, and heard that the plane group did not move in a straight line but attacked from Canadian territory in a roundabout way, so he nodded, praised the fight for "sound and colorful, and used his brains", and finally when he talked about the problem of fuel shortage, Yun lightly mentioned that "the next is not an example" and did not mention it. Horikichi didn't mention it, and of course others didn't mention it, but Nishimura Shoji was still a little surprised, and quietly asked Kusaka Ryunosuke, who was sitting next to him: "That's it?" Sir is too cheap for him! ”

Kusaka Ryunosuke couldn't help but laugh: "Nishimura-kun, shame is almost brave, next time he won't be so reckless, this is also a good thing." Have you forgotten the commander's comment before he set out for the expedition - 'Tsunoda is good, but he is a little impatient'? It shows that it was foreseen at that time, and it may be that in the mind of the chief, the basket he poked this time was completely expected, and it was not surprising......"

Nishimura Shoji nodded again and again, he also remembered that sentence, and thought: The chief probably saw it a long time ago! It's really much better than us......

What moved Kakuharu Tsunoda was that Horikichi did not talk casually and did not care, but reassigned him an important task: let the second air battle with enough fuel leave the broken friendship alone, and handed over the Chitose to Tsunoda, considering that the Amagi was injured, although it did not affect the use, there was always a bit of a problem, and let the Katsuragi and the Amagi exchange.

In this way, Tsunoda's aircraft carriers were restored to three and all of them were fleet carriers, and with Nishimura's Musashi, Kongo, and a few heavy cruisers, he could continue to happily make waves and fulfill the duties of a total blockade - which made Tsunoda grateful and more effective than any incentive.

In addition to the blockade mission of the Second Air Battle, the First Air Campaign in Tsukahara's hands was ready to cover the departure of the material fleet and landing force in the direction of Midway Island according to Hori's request after the meeting, and in view of the fact that there were no battleships in the Fifth Air Battle, the Nagato was assigned to the Fifth Air Battle.

In addition to Amagi and Kasaki, the Fifth Air War also included the Yamataka, the newly captured Bismarck Sea (Japan did not even plan to change its name), escort aircraft carriers, and four escort aircraft carriers, making it the largest fleet in formation.

Horikichi then announced the operational requirements: "The only requirement for the Jet 3 operation is to be fast!" Given that there are no strong countermeasures against the islands of Hawaii at the moment, I think it should be taken as soon as possible, otherwise there will be many dreams. Minister Yamamoto has made other requests to the Army to increase its troops, and it is expected that it will depart at the end of this month, and our Army will launch its Hawaiian attack with two Army Divisions and three Flying Divisions currently stockpiled at Midway. ”

Everyone unanimously agreed: although the existing forces are smaller than the U.S. forces in Hawaii, if they wait for the arrival of the follow-up army to start operations, it will undoubtedly take too long, and they will undoubtedly miss a good opportunity.

Seeing that there was no objection from everyone, Ryunosuke Kusaka read out the battle plan: "The commander ordered that the complete blockade of Hawaii will begin on November 3, the fleet attack time will be set for November 8, and the preparation time for the landing campaign will be set for November 11......"

In Operation Jet 3, Chiaki Matsuda's preferred landing destination was neither the largest island of Hawaii nor the most important island of Oahu, but the islands of Niihau and Kauai, which were closest to Midway, which were small in size, small in garrison, and not very strong in defense. Ask the army to take it as quickly as possible under fleet cover and use it as a forward base.

He gave this a full consideration: Although the carrier-based aircraft pilots are elite, it is very unwise to use them to fight the US Army Aviation pilots, and after occupying these two islands, the Army will be able to give full play to the superiority of the Army Aviation to launch an attack -- those Spitfires with short legs and the Mosquito bombers that cannot be carried by carriers can be used by the Army Aviation to consume the US Army Aviation. After all, the army gave a whole 3 flying divisions! When these 3 are almost consumed, it is estimated that the 4 domestic reinforcements will also arrive on the battlefield.

The combat radius of less than 200 kilometers from Niihau Island and Kauai Island to Oahu Island is completely within the range of ground air strikes, and if the Americans want to bomb them, he Matsuda Chiaki will not be able to ask for them -- he can take advantage of the situation to consume the few fuel reserves of the US military. Then wait for the next wave to jump to Lanai Island, avoid the two hard bones of Oahu and Hawaii Island, no planes and no fleet, even if the Americans have 100,000 troops, it is useless - they will trap you to death!

He was just halfway through his speech, when suddenly the telecommunications staff officer handed the confidential message to Horikishi, who immediately interrupted Matsuda's speech: "After taking Niihau and Kauai Island, the Jet 3 is paused and ready to start the Jet 4 ......."

Everyone was stunned, Matsuda Chiaki was also confused by the second monk, there were a total of 3 numbers in the Jiehao operation, why did the chief suddenly propose the Jie4?

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