In the early morning, the rapid ringing of the telephone woke Arnold in a daze, who rolled over and struggled to pick up the telephone. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Sir, Pearl Harbor has been attacked, and the Japanese are at the oil depot!"

"I see." A groggy Arnold muttered a reply, put down the phone, rolled over and fell asleep again—he had been so tired for the past two days.

But less than 20 seconds later, he suddenly sweated profusely and lifted the quilt and sat up, the dream just now was really a little weird, and it scared people awake all of a sudden.

While wiping his sweat, he thought: "It seems that my body is really bad, a dream is so scared that my soul is not possessed, could it be a nervous breakdown?" ”

After looking at his watch, it was almost time to get up, and just as he was about to get out of bed and change clothes, the "dream" was still lingering, and he suddenly had a clever head: Pearl Harbor was attacked? Japanese fried oil depot? And the phone ringing just now, it always seems that something is wrong.

This dream is too real, isn't it?

He immediately picked up the phone again and called back, shouting in a hysterical voice, "What the hell is Pearl Harbor doing now?" ”

Several officers on duty were surprised that the commander was indifferent to the attack on Pearl Harbor just now, but now when they heard this roar, they immediately stammered a little in fright: "Chief...... Sir...... Pearl Harbor ...... Meet...... Met with an attack...... Day...... Japan...... Airplanes in ...... At...... Explode...... Frying oil depot! ”

"Bastard! Bastard! Doolittle, bastard! Fight back for me right away! ”

Arnold's bastard, Rear Admiral Doolittle, commander of the Pearl Harbor Army Navy, went into a state of madness before he did.

As soon as the air defense sirens sounded at Pearl Harbor, the pilot-turned-major general woke up, and his instinctive reaction was to go out to find the plane, and it took two steps to come back to his senses. He hurriedly pounced and prepared to let the fighter on duty take off, and after hearing that there were already many planes preparing to take off, he relaxed a little, although 15 minutes was not enough, but he could take off dozens of fighters.

But within four minutes, sitting in the jeep and hurrying to the headquarters, he saw a flash of light in the sky, illuminating the bottom as bright as day—it was a flare dropped by the Japanese army, and to Doolittle, who had bombed Tokyo, knew too well what it meant, and his heart sank sharply: the Japanese moved much faster than expected. Sure enough, another minute passed, and before his feet had even entered the command headquarters, the explosion had begun to sound violently.

From the time the air defense siren sounded to the Japanese bomb dropped, the time was only 5 minutes, 307 seconds to be exact! The US military sounded the alarm in the 15th second, the first anti-aircraft gun was ejected in the 29th second, and the first fighter on duty began to taxi and take off in the 87th second.

Doolittle did not know that it was because of the ultra-low-altitude flight of the Japanese army that the warning time was greatly shortened, and he thought that there was a problem with the radar station and the duty room -- it was simply intolerable to make the same mistake twice. He jumped to his feet in the command and cursed: "If anyone falls asleep on duty, I will kill him one by one in the future!" ”

When the oil storage area burst into flames, more than 20 US fighter planes hurriedly assembled and rushed to the sky above the oil depot, at this time thick smoke and flames had begun to rise continuously, and the situation was very unfavorable to the US military -- the Japanese army had already adapted to the three-hour night, while the US troops had only taken off for only three to four minutes, and they were completely disorganized and clueless, but they still fought separately and bravely pounced, and then they were entangled by the Japanese troops escorting the Japanese gale change.

The level of US pilots who can be on night duty is not bad, but their number is too small, only about 20, while there are 170 Japanese planes in the air, and 48 in Gale alone. No matter how hard the U.S. military tried, the Japanese still launched bomb attacks in an orderly manner, setting off waves of violent explosions that rose higher and higher, causing one piece after another to burn.

The planes of both sides continued to fall, and the downed US pilot suddenly discovered that parachuting was also a troublesome thing: the ground was in a sea of fire, where could he jump? The downed Japanese fighters and attack planes did not parachute, and almost all of them, like Murata, chose to dive to the ground before losing control, or to find anti-aircraft guns or oil storage tanks for suicide attacks. Most of the bombs from these planes may have been dropped, but there was still more than half a tank of jet fuel in the tanks, which fell to the ground and contributed to more violent explosions and burning......

Thirty minutes after the first wave of battle, Takashi Ekusa arrived with a murderous second attack wave, by which time the sky was beginning to light up, and the whole of Pearl Harbor was shrouded in a layer of smoke from heavy oil burning......

"Sir, look, there are aircraft carriers in the port!"

"What?" Jiang Cao looked down and saw that there were indeed several aircraft carriers parked in the port of Pearl Harbor, not moving fast, and there seemed to be planes taxiing on them ready to take off, but the first one was obviously too anxious, and rushed out of the deck and fell directly into the sea without pulling it up...... He could only shake his head.

These are all Casablanca-class escort carriers, Halsey only took 12 of them, and the remaining 6 remained in Pearl Harbor for the pilots to train, and after receiving the siren, these aircraft carriers immediately started and increased their speed at maximum horsepower to prepare for the release of fighters (the speed was not enough to synthesize enough deck wind), but except for a few instructors, the warships were full of half-stubble with average training level - Taka Ekusa saw that the plane that crashed into the sea was piloted by the Lv.1 pilot.

"The Ogura squadron is going to attack the aircraft carrier, and the rest of the formation will continue to attack the original target with me!"

As soon as the words fell, 24 Meteor Alteration and 8 Gale Alteration swooped down according to Jiang Cao's order.

After two loud "booms" and "booms," Lieutenant Ogura took the lead in completing the "second attack" with 400 kg of bombs (both bombs fell on a warship), and the escort aircraft carrier Wendan Bay quickly exploded violently and sank slowly.

In the following minutes, the remaining five aircraft carriers suffered the same fate, the only one that was not sunk was also paralyzed on the surface of the water and could not move, although the sailors on board fought back with all their might, but only one Japanese plane was shot down, and only two fighters were successfully released from the six aircraft carriers - all of them were piloted by instructors, but because they were too hasty, they were all shot down mercilessly by Gale Gai.

Six escort aircraft carriers, more than 160 naval fighters, more than 200 cadet pilots, and thousands of naval officers and men all turned into cold results in less than eight minutes.

The first time he hit Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto Isoroku tried to hit an aircraft carrier with all his might, but he was in the air; The second time he hit Pearl Harbor, Horikichi didn't want to hit the warship at all, but he ran into the US escort aircraft carrier formation. It can be seen that there are always a lot of things that go wrong.

After destroying all 6 escort carriers, some of the Ogura squadron did not even participate in the attack, and after watching their comrades make contributions, they dropped bombs on the Fletcher-class destroyers escorting the escort, and the hapless Pacific Fleet then lost 3 destroyers.

The 24 Meteor and 8 Gale carried a total of 81 bombs (some carrying 2 400-kilogram bombs and some carrying 3 250-kilogram bombs), with an overall hit rate of more than 74%, and wiped out all the Pacific Fleet training units at the dock in just 10 minutes......

The sky is getting brighter and brighter, and the burning of the ground oil storage depot is becoming more and more violent, and everyone sincerely feels a pervasive burning sensation - that is the temperature change brought about by the burning of heavy oil, more than 6,000 tons of heavy oil is enough to drive the boiler to make the 70,000-ton Yamato run 7,000 nautical miles, and the scene of 300,000 tons of heavy oil burning can be imagined, directly hitting Hawaii from the autumn at the end of October to the summer.

Ingram was also alarmed after the air defense siren, and he was even more dumbfounded when he heard that the oil depot was attacked, and now the most difficult problem in the whole of Hawaii is the fuel problem, if the oil depot is finished, how can the battle be fought later?

He rushed over desperately and asked the army to find a way to keep the oil depot, but everyone shook their heads in mourning: The fire at the oil depot had burned into an ocean, spreading unbridled with the flow of heavy oil -- after the temperature rose, the heavy oil softened and the flow force increased, and by 7 o'clock, let alone extinguished, even controlling the spread of the fire became a big problem. Many defensive positions, buildings and facilities were engulfed in flames, which then brought other flammable materials to burn. Clouds of black smoke rushed upwards, and the air was filled with a choking smell that was almost suffocating.

Residents who were awakened in their sleep in their pajamas fled in panic, and the road was jammed, which not only prevented fire trucks from entering the scene, but also exacerbated the panic throughout the city.

At 7:29 a.m., the most tragic scene came, although the underground fuel depot set up by the US military near the fuel area was not directly destroyed by the Japanese bomb -- the Meteor dropped more than 10 800-kilogram bombs, although many large holes were drilled around, none of them directly hit, and there was no incident in a short time. But these holes and ruins destroyed the sealing system of the underground oil depot, and finally became the absorption and infiltration port after the heavy oil burned and flowed, and the hot and wanton flames quickly rushed into the oil depot along these gaps, and the guards watched the fire dragon pounce and were helpless, and after burning for half a minute, the entire underground oil depot was detonated, and there was an explosion like a landslide!

This explosion, which was more violent than the earthquake, suddenly turned all the high-octane aviation fuel into an explosion and erupted, and the Japanese pilots who were flying in the air were also shocked: I saw thousands of meters of air waves squeezing out violently in the direction of steel fragments, concrete ruins, and earth and rock, forming a mushroom cloud as high as thousands of meters, and almost all the buildings within 2 kilometers around were fatally damaged, and all the glass windows within 5 kilometers were shattered. The Japanese and American planes, which were not at a high altitude, were also involved in it and became martyrs.

Doolittle in the command fell to the ground with a "plop", of course he knew what was wrong with this - the largest underground fuel depot in the whole of Hawaii, it was over!

"The bombing was so successful that the huge fuel depot was detonated and the entire Pearl Harbor was turned into a sea of fire......

"Caiyun, who was in charge of monitoring the battlefield, sent a telegram, and even if you watched it from more than 50 kilometers away, you could see the flames of Pearl Harbor flying and thick smoke billowing out, like a hell on earth, reminiscent of the Great Fire of Rome."

Horiyoshi nodded, silent, and sighed: "Countless innocent civilians in the United States will be destroyed by fire, I have caused this killing, and the crime is so great, how will it end in the future?" ”

Hearing this, several elated staff officers were like pouring a basin of snow water on their heads, not knowing how to take it.

But then in the next second, he issued an order: "Tell the whole army that you must not be soft on the US military targets, and go all out to kill them, and I deserve to be responsible for the crime after the war!" ”