"Stab", a snow-white leaflet was first torn to pieces by Doolittle, and then viciously crumpled into a ball, from that rough)

"I can't believe we have such shameless characters!"

"Anger is not the solution, you have to think of a way out of the problem." After Admiral Ingram left Pearl Harbor to go to Washington, Halsey and other admirals led the fleet to be wiped out, the top general of the Hawaiian garrison became Vice Admiral Harrison, who sighed, "From the beginning, I felt that there were cats here, but I didn't expect it to be so many and so big, and the more critical reason is that the people involved are very tricky." ”

"No, the most important thing is that he was captured by the Japanese, and he also issued a confession, what a shame!" Doolittle said angrily, "Now that the news has spread all over the island, there is a lot of discussion on the island, everyone is in danger, the morale of the officers and soldiers has plummeted, and the fighting spirit is completely lost, how can this be fought?" ”

"I can only do my best, anyway, I'm like you, and I won't consider surrendering." Harrison sighed, "They didn't negotiate with Japan to surrender privately. ”

"How dare they?" Doolittle glared, "I'll beat them into a hornet's nest with Thomson one by one!" ”

Then there was an embarrassing silence.

"What do you think of the fact that the Japanese proposed in the leaflet the method of exchanging supplies for civilians?"

"No! Gasoline, equipment, ammunition, medicine, which of them are not what we urgently need? It was sent secretly by the Navy at the risk of their lives, and it cannot be handed over to the Japanese! Doolittle said, "Although I am dissatisfied with many aspects of the Navy, at least I can't accuse them of the officers and men of the Navy who are risking great dangers to carry out transportation. ”

At present, the most effective resupply to Hawaii is the submarine smuggling, although there are examples of sunken, the overall efficiency is quite high, each transport can bring at least 5,000 tons of supplies, and at the same time can take away a group of wounded when retreating, the only problem is that it takes about 20 days to come to a trip for too long, which is equivalent to an average of only 250 tons of supplies per day, which is only to make up for the most insignificant losses for the defenders of the two islands who consume more than 1,500 tons per day. Moreover, this is only the attrition of the current maintenance phase, and once the large-scale landing of the Japanese army begins, the attrition will increase exponentially.

As for the Los Angeles Express and the San Francisco Express, due to their low efficiency, high cost, and heavy losses, the Navy has basically given up and is vigorously mobilizing and refitting Little Shark-class submarines, and more than 30 of them have initially gathered on the west coast, preparing to further increase the frequency of transportation and replenishment to once every 10 days. The Japanese knew that the U.S. military was secretly transporting it with submarines, but they thought that it was only an accidental transportation of 3 or 4 ships at most, but they did not expect the scale of the opponent to be so large.

It was precisely because the scale of transportation was ready to expand that the defenders had the courage and determination to hold on, but the people did not know the news, they only saw the strict control and quantitative compression day by day, and all they saw was that their own side was isolated and the opponent came to bomb and harass day by day.

There are probably more than 170 planes left by the defenders of the two islands of Hawaii, and although more than 50 planes and more spare parts have been replenished through submarine transportation, the losses some time ago were also staggering, so the overall scale has decreased instead of increasing.

Japan and the United States waged a brutal tug-of-war and war of attrition on the Hawaiian front. The Japanese army's transportation line is about twice the distance of the American army, and at the same time it is very difficult to maintain such a giant as the main force of the combined fleet, and the advantage is that it has obtained oil tankers and supplies from Europe.

increased capacity levels; The shorter supply lines of the U.S. military and the stocks of the two Hawaiian islands were disadvantaged by the Japanese blockade, which could only be transported by submarines, which was the most uneconomical method.

If the Japanese army had not blockaded Hawaii Island, even if the U.S. military had no fleet and only used the fleet to transport it, the Japanese army would have lost, and now the two sides are barely tied, and both sides are doing their best to gain time: the U.S. military needs to buy time for its naval expansion and the reversal of the overall strategic posture; The Japanese needed to transport and stock up on more supplies, to consolidate the defenses of the occupied islands, and to gain time to capture other islands in the Central Pacific that were still occupied by the U.S. military.

Tsukahara deployed Nishimura to carry out this act, the purpose of which was to disintegrate and destroy the will of the Hawaiian defenders to resist, weaken the ability to resist, and reduce the losses of their own side.

Although because of Doolittle and Harrison's tough statement, the Hawaiian defenders refused to exchange military supplies for civilian freedom, but there were also wealthy businessmen who did not give up and proposed to trade in other ways, such as gold, silver, jewelry, civilian mid-to-high-end cars, etc., which Doolittle and Harrison could not refuse, and the army could not protect civilians, and did not even allow civilians to save themselves?

So a black economic chain appeared in Hawaii, some rich Hawaiian civilians used cargo ships to carry cars, motorcycles, radios, gramophones, gold, silver, jewelry, watches, dollar bills, etc. to exchange freedom with the Japanese army, there are many things in it that are not urgently needed by Japan, especially dollar cash, except for the use of the black market in Shanghai, it is of no use to the United Fleet, but in order to divide the Hawaiian people, Tsukahara agreed to accept it, and determined the "freedom" ransom through bargaining: 4000 US dollars / person for adult men and women, Children are halved, just ask if the money is right, regardless of the identity of the ransomed.

$4,000 is not a low figure, and it is even more difficult to get this money if you remove real estate, shares, and other things that cannot be realized, and the rich can also make up for it through hard currencies such as cars, motorcycles, gold, and silver, and the middle class can only sell real estate and other securities at a low price, and no one dares to let go of cash, gold, and silver in Hawaiian banks.

In the end, the state of the economy is completely distorted: dollar bills are hard to find, and if it is just a digital deposit in a bank, it usually has to be discounted by 3 or even 2 to realize it. Civilians who couldn't scrape together $4,000 traded their cash and physical goods to people who desperately needed cash to leave, exchanging them for three or even four times the digital deposits in their banks.

There are even people who smell valuable "business opportunities" and exchange physical goods, US dollars, and gold for real estate (houses and real estate), deposits, shares, etc., of the middle class at extremely low prices.

This raging underground black market completely shattered Hawaii's normal economic order, so much so that Hawaii was hard to find a single penny, and there was a rare economic spectacle of degradation, with small-scale transactions fixed to general equivalents turned into cigarettes and soaps, and then there was a transcendent evolution, and the slightly larger economic transactions were made cashless, completely replaced by cashier's checks or deposit checks.

On January 12 alone, the Combined Fleet received more than $500,000 worth of supplies and cash, and then released more than 1,400 people. On January 14, the Combined Fleet received more than 1 million supplies and cash, and once again released the wings gently instigated by Tsukahara of nearly 3,000 people, turning it into an out-and-out Hawaiian disaster, but I still can't say a word.

Government and bankers rushed to the headquarters in the hope that Doolittle and Harrison would get some dollar bills and gold and silver to be shipped to the West Coast, but the two officers were distraught at the proposal: the entire Hawaiian crowd was now completely divided, with those with money squeezing their heads out to escape, and those without money watching from the sidelines. Since the Japanese army did not care about their status, there were even a few more wealthy officers and soldiers who were trying to sharpen their heads and squeeze into the ranks of "paying the ransom for freedom".

On the Yamato, Tsukahara shook his head at Kusaka Ryunosuke and said, "Through this kind of transaction, I finally met the Americans, and I found that my previous understanding of them was too superficial. I thought it was a fantasy when the Germans used Jews to collect ransom for supplies, but I didn't expect the living reality to appear here. ”

"How many Jews did Germany let go of in the first place?"

"The true number is not clear, but the chief estimates that it will not be less than 300,000. It is said that in order to help the Jews who had no money to trade ransoms, American Jewish bankers also deliberately introduced personal loans to be returned by coolies upon arrival in the United States."

"This is really this is really this is really " Kusaka Ryunosuke really had nothing to say, and finally reluctantly picked a word to describe it, "It's an eye-opener." ”

Tsukahara explained to his subordinates: "Telegram to the chief, and then ship these things to Shanghai for sale, and by the way, also provide some funds for the navy." ”

"Sir, Hawaii has sent someone again, explaining that he wants to trade again the day after tomorrow, and then ask if the equipment of the civilian shipyard and factory can be offset?"

Kusaka Ryunosuke laughed: "It's okay to trade, don't the equipment be all ours once Hawaii is conquered?" However, other materials let them use their brains, what clothing, fabrics, sugar, glass, cables, hardware, machinery, washing and other civilian products can also be traded, the price is set by us! ”

Tsukahara looked approvingly, this level of robbery is much more voluntary than the Army's door-to-door looting of "smart" and "civilized".

At the end of January 1945, during the blockade of the Hawaiian Islands, a lot of new American goods arrived in the Shanghai black market, and many of them were brought in by warships, and they were quickly looted.

As the supply of material resources continued to flow, Hawaiian civilians left the island in an endless stream, and the morale of the defenders fell like wild horses on the loose.