On the night of March 18, 1940, San Diego Military Harbor, United States, Sino-American Joint Command.

"Sir! A convoy of Japanese submarines has broken through to Area 12 from the north! A U.S. Navy colonel sped in from outside and handed a copy of the telegram to Admiral Nimitz. Hearing this news, Luo Yaoguo, who was originally standing next to the chart and contemplating his eyebrows, immediately turned his head and looked at Nimitz, as if asking, "What happened?" Did Hirohito run away? ”

"Your Excellency," Nimitz said, shaking his head, "the report I just received. About 4 Japanese submarines entered from the north of Area 12...... Looking at the location, it is estimated that it came from Area 2 and should have been discovered in the morning. That is, they sailed out of Pearl Harbor, and Hirohito was most likely on it! ”

"Really kill a bloody road? Is Hirohito crazy? After listening to Nimitz's description, Luo Yaoguo had an incredible expression on his face, thought for a moment, shook his head, and said to himself: "Impossible, impossible." The son of a daughter, he can't sit down, let alone the emperor? If you break through by submarine like this, the probability of survival is at most 30%, and I don't believe that Hirohito dares to play with his life like this. The Japanese must be playing a trick of turning the tiger out of the mountains...... Hirohito must have gone somewhere else! Speaking of this, Luo Yaoguo thought for a while, and said to Nimitz in English: "Admiral, I think that Hirohito is probably not on these submarines, and he is likely to leave from somewhere else." ”

"Marshal," Nimitz glanced at Luo Yaoguo and hesitated, "Do you mean that Hirohito still has a small chance of being on these four submarines?" ”

Luo Yaoguo snorted and said to Nimitz: "Yes." All kinds of possibilities exist, it is possible that Hirohito will be on these four submarines, or it is possible that he will leave from other directions. It's even possible that they didn't leave Oahu at all......"

Nimitz crossed his waist and looked at the map, and slowly muttered, "Don't think about the problem of leaving Oahu first, if he is still on Oahu." Then you will never be able to run. If Hirohito had already left in a submarine, our problem now would be to determine which submarine he was on and from which direction he had escaped. So we can only use a stupid way to deal with him, that is, to go all out to carry out anti-submarine warfare and turn the millions of square kilometers of sea near the Hawaiian Islands upside down! Sink all the Japanese submarines in this area! Marshal Luo, what is your opinion? ”

"It's better to kill by mistake than to misplace, I agree with you! We have more than a hundred destroyers near the Hawaiian Islands. There are also dozens of light cruisers that can carry seaplanes, a dozen aircraft carriers. Except for a part of the Japanese troops left in Hilo Bay to spy on Oahu, they can all be scattered into the sea near the Hawaiian Islands, and as long as the weather improves, they will send out seaplanes and long-range reconnaissance planes on Hawaii Island to monitor every sea area! Unless the submarine Hirohito is on does not show its head, it will ......" Luo Yaoguo's eyes showed a hint of mockery. "This emperor can only suffocate to death at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean!"

Nimitz clapped his hands. "Well, since Your Excellency Marshal agrees, then we will do so! As long as we can eliminate Hirohito, the culprit, peace in the Pacific will be just around the corner! ”

Zhao Zheng, who was in charge of front-line command on the USS Taiwan aircraft carrier in Hilo Bay, was busy mobilizing troops to encircle and suppress a large number of Japanese submarines that appeared south of Oahu. Due to the harsh climatic conditions. The more than 1,000 planes of the Chinese and American coalition forces were all unable to dispatch, so they had to mobilize warships to the sea area for reinforcements. However, the speed of the warships was limited after all, and the light cruisers and destroyers sent out from Hilo Bay could not arrive at all in a few hours, so Zhao Zheng mobilized a destroyer detachment from several other directions in the waters near Oahu to reinforce it. But as a result, the destroyer blockade on the northern front of Oahu has become sparse......

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"Your Majesty, this is a lounge specially prepared for you, although it is a little small, but it is already the most spacious on this submarine."

It was the captain of the I-201 submarine who spoke, and Hirohito already knew that his name was Jun Noda, a native of Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, and his family had not escaped from Japan, so it was inevitable that he was a little depressed.

"Very well, I'm very happy here." Hirohito waved his hand and motioned for Noda to leave. Then he glanced calmly at the small lounge, which had been the captain's lounge, about two or three square meters, which could only accommodate a single cot, a table that could not be smaller, and a cabinet for miscellaneous items. There was a mattress on top of the small bed, and Hirohito sat on it and still felt a little hot under his buttocks. The temperature inside the submarine was very high, about 40 degrees Celsius, and Hirohito, dressed in a tweed military uniform, felt as if he was in a huge oven and was about to be baked.

After a while, King Fushimi Miyahiro Gong, Konoe Fumi, Ugaki Kazunari and others, as well as several of Hirohito's entourage, had also set up their own temporary "residences", and then they all ran to Hirohito's small room to "face the saint". Several "important ministers" were also pampered, and they were thrown into this submarine like a sardine can, and they really suffered a big crime, and they all looked tired and walked heavily.

After the meeting of the monarch and the minister, he was also relatively speechless, Hirohito sat on the hot little bed, listlessly looking at a few dejected ministers, not knowing what to say? The submarine's diesel engine began to make a piercing roar at this time, and although Hirohito was in the middle of the submarine, a long way from the diesel engine room at the stern, the mechanical roar still sounded particularly noisy to these people.

"If the Yankees were caught and put in their prison, the conditions would probably be better than here, right?" Such a thought suddenly popped into Hirohito's heart, and then he shook his head with a wry smile. The Chinese will not allow themselves to fall into the hands of the Americans alive! If he had spoken out in the US court about the collusion between China and Japan to harm the United States, Sino-US relations would probably not be as close as they are now, right?

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of thumping footsteps, and a young naval officer ran along the narrow passage. He handed a telegram to the ambushing palace Bogong king, then bowed and turned to leave.

When Fushimiya opened the telegraph and read it, he was immediately overjoyed. He bowed slightly at Hirohito and reported, "Your Majesty, good news." The destroyer detachments of China and the United States are now appearing one after another in the waters south of Yamato Island (Oahu) and fighting fiercely with our submarine forces! ”

"Oh? And will our submarines be able to win? Hirohito asked casually.

"This ......" Fushimi Palace was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, the purpose of our submarine force is to attract Chinese and American destroyers, make the blockade line north of Yamato Island sparse, and create conditions for Your Majesty to transfer from Yamato Island. Now that this goal has been achieved, it is therefore a strategic victory. ”

"So, the submarine we're on will be able to leave soon?" Hirohito seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. There was a rare look of relief on his face.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the I-201 has already left the docks." Although Fushiminomiya, who has been in the navy for most of his life, is in the inner compartment, he can still analyze from the degree of turbulence of the hull that the submarine has left the dock. He paused slightly, and then said to Hirohito: "Your Majesty, due to the high winds and rough seas at sea today, the bumps of the submarine may be a little severe later. Your Majesty is asked to lie down and rest to conserve your strength. The ministers retired first. With that, he bowed again, and took the lead to leave Hirohito's "underwater palace".

For this somewhat rude act, Hirohito felt a little unhappy, as if he had a feeling of being ignored by his subordinates. But soon he didn't have the heart to think about such trivial things. Because the degree of the submarine's jolting and shaking began to intensify. Hirohito's head gradually felt heavy and dizzy, and then he began to feel nauseous and nauseous, and the roar of the huge diesel engine also made him feel tinnitus and swelling his head, and it didn't take long for Emperor Hirohito to hold back any longer, and he was holding a basin and vomiting there...... It turned out that this was the reason why Fushiminomiya wanted to retire first.

At this moment, the officers and crew in the command cabin of the submarine were busy with their duties, and the captain Noda was personally operating a steering wheel that looked like a car steering wheel. The Minister of the Navy, Fushimi Miya, sat on top of an iron box with a pipe in his mouth, and next to him sat the military senator Kantaro Suzuki, and the two of them were talking in a whisper.

"The submarine is very turbulent, and it is so hot inside the submarine, can Your Majesty withstand it?" Kantaro Suzuki had already taken off his tweed military uniform at this time, so he put on a sweat-soaked shirt, and said while wiping sweat there.

"The bumps are so bad that it's still windy and raining outside...... If it doesn't settle down at some point, I'm afraid it will be even more troublesome. Fushimiya smiled bitterly and counted with his fingers: "We are now floating at a high speed of 25 knots, and if this weather can last for 10 hours, we will be able to run 250 nautical miles." At that time, the Chinese and US reconnaissance planes will be able to take to the air, and they can use airborne radar to search the sea surface, and the danger will be greatly increased......"

Suzuki Shitaro frowned and asked, "What is the course now?" ”

"45 degrees to the northwest, the farthest distance from Hilo Bay in this direction, and after 10 hours, it will be more than 800 kilometers away from the Sino-US airfield in Hilo Bay."

"The plane will also fly for two hours," Kantaro Suzuki calculated, and added, "That is to say, there are at least 12 hours to float, and then three hours of diving at a speed of about 15 knots, which is about 345 nautical miles, or about 640 kilometers...... This distance between the destroyers and light cruisers of China and the United States could not catch up, and it seems that this plan is still very sure that it will succeed. ”

Fushimi Palace smiled deeply: "Of course, this plan of action was made by the commander of the Combined Fleet, Yamamoto Isoroku, after racking his brains, and he paid so much sacrifice. Of the more than 30 submarines, I am afraid there is not much chance of survival. ”

Kantaro Suzuki smiled slightly: "It's worth it, as long as you can keep Your Majesty, all the efforts are worth it!" ”

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"Depth, 100 meters!"

The deck of the destroyer Nanhui was extremely busy, and the sailors skillfully turned the depth fixer on the depth charge, setting the depth of detonation to 100 meters underwater, and then several small oil barrel-like depth charges were thrown into the sea by the launcher.

At this time, in Area 12, located about 60 nautical miles south of Oahu, the battle between Chinese and American destroyers and Japanese submarines had basically been divided into winners and losers. As one destroyer formation after another arrived on the battlefield, the Japanese submarine immediately became the prey of hunting. They were sunk by depth charges one after another, and those who escaped for the time being did not dare to arrogantly fight against the destroyers. I had to dive to the bottom of the sea to play the three life-saving tricks of "diving deep, sitting at the bottom, and waiting". Although this routine is primitive, it is very effective, and even Chinese and American destroyers equipped with the most advanced sonar have nothing to do with them. You can only search patiently and slowly, and sometimes throw a few more depth charges to try your luck, but the depth charges on the destroyer are limited after all, and it is impossible to turn the entire sea area into a pot of boiling water.

However, for the Japanese submarine lurking at the bottom of the sea, it is not completely without danger, because as time passes, the oxygen in the submarine will eventually run out! When the time comes, they'll have to surface and die! Now they were not dealing with a fleet of transport ships in a hurry. Rather, it was the Chinese and American destroyer fleets that were holding their breath and insisting on killing them all.

After diving to a depth of 120 meters, all the power systems on the I-15 submarine have been turned off, the submarine is suspended in the water and does not move, the inner compartment of the submarine is pitch black, there is no light, and there is no sound except for the heartbeat and breathing of people. It's like being in a dark and silent hell. Matsumura sat cross-legged on the floor of the command cabin, took out a string of prayer beads in his hand, his lips squirmed slightly, and silently recited the death spell of the super-undead. Now the Yasukuni Shrine can't go (it was blown up), so I can only go to reincarnate one by one...... As for the others, they mostly went into hibernation. It is as if he has forgotten the passage of time, the danger he is in, and the fact that there is a great Japanese empire in the world, which is completely in a state of numbness, completely indifferent to the sound of explosions that are near and far, strong and weak.

I don't know how long it took, but the roar of the explosion finally ceased, and the whole world seemed to fall into complete silence and darkness, and even time seemed to freeze. However, Matsumura did not order the motor turbine to be restarted and the submarine to be launched, as stipulated in the training. A telegram from the Combined Fleet Command was now in his pocket. The telegram said: After losing the battle with the enemy's surface fleet, all must be dived to the deep sea, and all power systems must be turned off and silent waiting. After that, the power system is not allowed to be restarted until the oxygen is exhausted.

Matsumura didn't know why the Combined Fleet Command would give such an order, and even less what the consequences would be after they ran out of oxygen and surfaced? Could there be a whole group of destroyers waiting for them? The only thing he could do now was probably to continue to recite the mantra of his past life there in silence......

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"Where are you now?"

This was the first problem Emperor Hirohito had when he came to his senses, and it is not known whether it was due to the Central Agency or seasickness, and he lost consciousness a few hours after boarding the I-201 submarine...... When he woke up, he found that he had been stripped of his coat, leaving only a vest and trousers, flat on a single bed covered with a mat, and there were several blue-faced "important ministers" and attendants beside him, one of whom was still vomiting while holding a spittoon, and at the same time holding a folding fan and fanning himself weakly, looking strange and pitiful.

"Your Majesty, we are now about 280 nautical miles from Yamato Island, and Your Majesty has been asleep for eleven hours." The answer to the question was the Minister of the Navy, Fushiminomiya, and the old prince, who had a horse's face, also looked tired, and his eyes were bloodshot.

"Oh?" Hirohito replied slowly, and said, "The shaking doesn't seem to be very strong, has the wind and waves outside subsided?" ”

"Your Majesty is wise, and now it's calm outside."

Hirohito nodded, sat up straight with the help of a close attendant, and asked, "Is there any news of Yamato Island?" Did the Chinese and Americans resume their offensive? ”

"Nope." When Fushimiya answered, his eyebrows suddenly twisted slightly, as if he was worried about something? Seeing the expression of this "imperial uncle", Hirohito hurriedly asked: "Fushimi Palace, is there any problem?" Could it be that China and the United States have any conspiracy? ”

Fushimi Palace shook his head slowly and replied, "Nothing, please rest assured, Your Majesty, there will be no problems." ”

Hirohito nodded lightly, squeezing out a little smile on his face: "That's good, tell Asakanomiya and Yamamoto, let them stick to Yamato Island with peace of mind, don't think about me, and when I arrive in Germany, I will definitely persuade Hitler......'s Führer to put pressure on China as soon as possible" Speaking of this, Hirohito seemed to think of something, and suddenly asked again: "Fushimi Palace, is the submarine floating or diving now?" ”

"It's floating, Your Majesty." Fushimiya replied.

"Won't there be a problem? Won't be detected by enemy aircraft on the water? ”

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the plan for this transfer has been strictly calculated, and now we are now more than 900 kilometers away from Hilo Bay, the island of Hawaii, where the main force of the Chinese and US fleets is located, and their planes will not be able to fly to us here within one hour, so we can still float for a while."

As soon as Fushiminomiya's words fell, Hirohito heard a rapid whining sound before he could praise a few words! As soon as the Minister of the Navy, Fushimi Palace, and the Admiral of the Naval Reserve, Kantaro Suzuki, heard this voice, a deep fear suddenly appeared on their faces! Because they know that this is exactly the reminder of the emergency dive of the submarine......

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"It's a Japanese dive type!"

Wu Shun, an observer on the Min-25 seaplane, had his pupils narrowed to a cold star, and he recognized the slender submarine on the surface of the sea at a glance, although there were no markings on it, but he was sure that it was a high-speed submarine of the Japanese Navy. In order to make sure that he was not mistaken, he took the legends of the various types of ships of the Japanese Navy sent from above, turned to the page where the submarine was printed, carefully compared it with the submarine below, and finally confirmed it.

"That's right, it's the Hidden Height! Looks like we've caught the big fish this time! According to Lieutenant Commander Hu Dingxin, the captain of the seaplane carrier Xingdao, where they are located, Lieutenant Commander Hu Dingxin, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito is likely to be playing the trick of the golden cicada shelling, using a bunch of cannon fodder submarines to attract the attention of the Chinese and American navies, and sneaking away from the other direction. The mission of the 12 Min-25 seaplanes on board the Star Island was to search a large area of the sea northwest of Oahu, for which all the officers and men of the ship had been tossed and turned on the rough sea for almost 8 to 9 hours, and now it seems that they will not return empty-handed!

The captain, Lieutenant Liu Ziqi, had also seen the submarine on the surface, and he turned around and asked, "Shunzi, you are not mistaken, right?" Don't turn back and make a mistake. ”

There are also many Chinese and American submarines operating in this area, and if they make a mistake, they will be punished, and they will even go to court-martial!

"You can't be wrong!" Wu Shun replied with certainty: "Captain, if you look carefully, that submarine is slender and long, and the volume is also large, at least 1,500 tons, and the speed is also fast. Where do we and the United States have such good submarines? This thing must be the dive height type of Little Japan! Captain, hurry up and attack, first use the cannon to make a few holes in the shell of this submarine, so that it can't escape, maybe we can capture the Japanese emperor alive! ”

"Okay! Then give it a few holes first......" Liu Ziqi also had a trace of expectation on his face, maybe he was dreaming of capturing the emperor alive, right? As soon as he pressed the nose of the plane, the somewhat clumsy Min-25 seaplane dived at once, this kind of seaplane has a limited dive angle and cannot be used to dive and drop bombs, but it can still be done with a 20mm machine gun for a while.

In World War II in this time and space, the role of submarines was not large, so submarine warfare and anti-submarine warfare were still in the exploration stage. In fact, in the Second World War in history, the greatest threat to German submarines in the Atlantic Ocean was precisely those aircraft that had neither sonar nor depth charges! As long as they use cannons or bombs to hit the submarine before the opponent's submarine dives, they only need to damage the submarine and make it lose its ability to dive, and then the submarine can only sit on the surface of the sea and wait for death......

Depressed the nose, dived at a small angle, and then aimed at the submarine that was slowly diving, and then gently pressed the trigger, a series of tongues of fire spat out, and a series of holes were punched in the shell of the suspected Japanese submarine below, and the whole process was as easy as target training. A well-planned escape turned into a huge tragedy because of a small omission!

On the morning of March 19, 1940, the submarine on which the Japanese Emperor Hirohito was traveling was damaged by a Chinese seaplane and lost its ability to dive. ~！