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Chapter 145 1944: Swiftness and Lightning (16)

In the early morning, the rapid phone ringing rang, awakening Arnold, who was confused, he turned over and struggled to pick up the phone.

"Sir, Pearl Harbor was attacked, and the Japanese were frying the oil depot!"

"I understand." Arnold, who was drowsy, replied vaguely, put down the phone, turned over and fell asleep again. He was so tired in the past two days.

But less than 20 seconds later, he suddenly opened the quilt and sat up in sweat. The dream just now was really strange and suddenly woke up.

While wiping his sweat, he thought, "It seems that his body is really not good. A dream is so scared that he is out of possession. Could it be that his nerves are fading?"

After looking at the watch, it was almost time to get up. Just as he was about to get out of bed and change his clothes, the "dream" was still lingering. He suddenly felt clever: Pearl Harbor attack? The Japanese fry the oil depot? And the phone ringing just now, it seemed that something was wrong.

Is this dream too real?

He immediately picked up the phone and called back, shouting in a hysterical voice: "How is Pearl Harbor now?"

Several officers on duty were surprised that the commander was indifferent to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Now, when he heard this roar, he was suddenly frightened and stuttered: "Chief...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................!"

"Bastard! Bastard! Doolittle! Fight back immediately!"

The bastard in Arnold's mouth, Major General Doolittle, commander of Pearl Harbor Airlines, entered madness earlier than him.

As soon as the Pearl Harbor air defense alarm sounded, the major general, who was born in a pilot, woke up. The instinctive reaction was to go out to find the plane. After running two steps, he came to his senses. He didn't say that he was wearing pajamas. The important thing now was command. He rushed over and prepared to take off the fighter plane on duty. He heard that there were already many planes ready to take off, so he relaxed a little. Although 15 minutes was not enough, he could take off dozens of fighter planes.

But within 4 minutes, he was sitting in a jeep and hurried towards the command center and saw a flash of light in the sky, illuminating the bottom as bright as daytime. This was the flares dropped by the Japanese army. For Doolittle, who had bombed Tokyo, he knew what this meant, and his heart suddenly sank: the Japanese army was moving much faster than expected. Sure enough, another minute later, before his feet could enter the command center, the explosion began to sound violently.

From the sound of the air defense alarm to the Japanese dropping bombs, the time was only 5 minutes, to be precise, 307 seconds! The US military sounded the alarm in the 15th second, the first anti-aircraft gun was shot out of the borehole in the 29th second, and the first fighter on duty began to slide and take off in the 87th second. The reaction speed was many times faster than the first attack on Pearl Harbor, but it was still too late.

Doolittle didn't know that it was because of the Japanese ultra-low-altitude flight that caused the early warning time to be greatly shortened. He thought it was a radar station again, and there was a problem in the duty room. The same mistake made twice was simply intolerable. He jumped in the command center and scolded: "Who the fuck fell asleep while on duty, I will kill him one by one in the future!"

When a huge fire broke out in the oil storage area, more than 20 US fighter jets hurriedly gathered to rush over the oil depot. At this time, thick smoke and fire began to rise. The situation was very unfavorable for the US military. The Japanese army had adapted to the dark night for three hours, and the US army had just taken off for only 3-4 minutes and was completely unorganized and clueless. However, they were still fighting on their own, bravely rushed over, and were entangled by the escort Japanese storm.

The level of US pilots who can serve night shifts is not bad, but they are too small, only 20, while there are 170 Japanese aircraft in the air, and 48 of Guanglifeng Replacement. No matter how hard the US military tries, the Japanese army still launches bomb attacks in an orderly manner, causing waves of violent explosions higher and waves, causing one after another to burn.

The planes of both sides were constantly falling down, and the shot down US pilot suddenly discovered that parachuting was also a troublesome: the ground was covered with a sea of ​​fire, where could it jump? The members of the Japanese fighter jets that were hit by the crash did not jump. Almost like Murata, they chose to dive to the ground before losing control, or look for anti-aircraft guns, or find oil storage tanks for suicide attacks. Most of the bombs of these aircraft may have been thrown out, but there was still half a box of aviation fuel in the fuel tank, which caused a more violent explosion and combustion...

After 30 minutes of the first attack wave fighting, Jiang Cao Ryufan arrived with the murderous second attack wave. At this time, the sky had begun to brighten, and the entire Pearl Harbor was shrouded in a layer of heavy oil-burning smoke...

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

"What?" Jiang Caolongfan looked down and saw that there were indeed several aircraft carriers parked at Pearl Harbor. They were not moving fast. There seemed to be planes slid on it to take off, but the first one was obviously too anxious and rushed out of the deck before pulling it up and fell directly into the sea... He could only shake his head.

These are all Casablanca-class escort aircraft carriers. Halsey took only 12 of them away, and the remaining 6 remained in Pearl Harbor for pilots to train. After receiving the alarm, these aircraft carriers were immediately activated to increase their speed with maximum horsepower to prepare to release the fighter (the speed was not enough to synthesize enough deck wind). But except for a few instructors, the warships were all half-baked with average training level, Jiang Cao Longfan saw that the plane fell into the sea was driven by the lv.1 pilot.

"The Kokura Squadron went to attack the aircraft carrier, and the rest of the formation continued to attack the original target with me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, 24 meteors changed, and 8 Fiery Fengjie rushed down according to the orders of Jiang Cao Longfan.

"Boom", "Boom" two loud bangs, Lieutenant Okura took the lead in completing the "second combo" with 400 kilograms of bombs (the two bombs all landed on a warship), and the Wendan Bay escort aircraft carrier quickly exploded violently and slowly sank.

In the following minutes, the remaining five aircraft carriers suffered the same fate. The only unsinkable one was paralyzed on the water and could not move. Although the sailors on the ship tried their best to fight back, they only shot down one Japanese aircraft. The six aircraft carriers successfully released two fighter jets. All of them were piloted by instructors, but because they were too hasty, they were all shot down by Lie Fengjie without any mercy.

A total of 6 escort aircraft carriers, more than 160 naval fighter jets, more than 200 flight cadets and thousands of naval officers and soldiers all turned into cold results in less than 8 minutes.

When he first fought Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto Iroku wanted to fight an aircraft carrier, but he was defeated. When he was second attacking Pearl Harbor, Hori Teiki didn't want to fight a warship at all, but he ran into the US escort aircraft carrier formation. It can be seen that there are always many accidents.

After destroying all six escort aircraft carriers, there were even people in the Okura Squadron who did not participate in the attack. Seeing his companions making contributions, they dropped bombs on the escort Fletcher-class destroyer. The unlucky Pacific Fleet then lost three more destroyers.

24 meteors, 8 Liefenghua carried a total of 81 bombs (partially carried 2 400 kilogram bombs and some carried 3 250 kilogram bombs), with an overall hit rate of more than 74%. In just 10 minutes, all the Pacific Fleet training troops at the dock were wiped out...

The sky is getting brighter and the combustion of the ground oil storage warehouse is getting more and more intense. Everyone sincerely feels a ubiquitous burning feeling. It is the temperature change caused by the combustion of heavy oil. More than 6,000 tons of heavy oil is enough to drive the boiler to run the 70,000 tons of Yamato to 7,000 nautical miles. The scene of 300,000 tons of heavy oil burning can be imagined, directly driving Hawaii back to summer from autumn at the end of October.

Ingram was also alarmed after the air defense alarm. He was even more stunned when he heard that the oil depot was attacked. Now the most difficult thing in Hawaii is the fuel problem. If the oil depot is finished again, how can the battle be fought later?

He rushed over desperately and asked the army to find a way to protect the oil depot, but everyone shook their heads as if they were lost: the oil depot fire had burned into an ocean, and as the flow of heavy oil spreads freely, the heavy oil softened and the flow power increased. By 7 o'clock, let alone extinguishing, even controlling the spread of the fire became a big problem. Many defensive positions, buildings and facilities were all engulfed by the fire, and the fire caused other flammable items to burn. Balls of black smoke rushed upwards, and the air was filled with a choking smell, which was almost suffocating.

Residents who were awakened in their sleep were wearing pajamas and fled in panic. The road was blocked sharply, which not only hindered the fire truck from entering the scene, but also aggravated the panic throughout the city.

At 7:29, 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 bombshell meteor, it dropped more than ten 800 kilogram bombs. Although many large holes were drilled out around, none of them hit directly and were safe in a short period of time. However, these holes and ruins destroyed the sealing system of the underground oil depot, and finally became the absorption and infiltration ports after the combustion of heavy oil. The scorching and unrestrained flames quickly rushed into the oil depot along these gaps. The guards watched the fire dragon pounce in without any help. After half a minute of burning, the entire underground oil depot was detonated, and a landslide exploded like a crack!

This explosion, which was even more violent than an earthquake, immediately turned all high-octane aviation fuel into explosive air waves and squirted out. The Japanese pilots who were flying in the air were also shocked: the air waves of thousands of meters were covered with steel debris, concrete ruins, and earth and rocks, forming mushroom clouds up to thousands of meters high. Almost all the buildings within 2 kilometers were fatally damaged, and all the glass windows within 5 kilometers were shattered. The swelling mushroom clouds even flew in the air. The Japanese and American aircraft with low altitudes were also involved and became burial objects.

Doolittle in the command center fell to the ground with a "thump". Of course, he knew what was wrong with this. The largest underground fuel depot in Hawaii is over!

"Jiang Cao Longfan sent a war report, the bombing was extremely successful, the giant fuel depot was detonated, and the entire Pearl Harbor turned into a sea of ​​fire..."

"Caiyun, who is responsible for battlefield monitoring, sent a telegram. Even if you watch from more than 50 kilometers away, you can see the flames flying in Pearl Harbor, which is like a hell on earth, reminiscent of the great fire in Rome."

Hori Teiki nodded, silently sighed: "There must be countless innocent American civilians destroyed by fire. I committed this killing and the sins are serious. How will the future end?"

Hearing this, several cheerful advisers were pouring a basin of snow water on their heads, not knowing how to take it.
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