Chapter 935 Target, Pearl Harbor
Chapter 935 Target, Pearl Harbor
Higashino Daiki on the opposite side was obviously stunned for a moment, but he soon agreed excitedly.
With Chen Yang's words, he no longer had to be polite to Miura Yuutarou.
This guy came to the Joint Transport Department with all his arrogance and gave orders, doesn’t he know that the person here is surnamed Chen?
The Shanghai Stock Exchange does not allow such awesome people to exist..
Chen Yang hung up the phone and went back to the second floor.
Fujiwara Nao said in a gentle voice: "What's the matter? Is there an incident in the department?"
Chen Yang shook his head and told the story of Yuutarou Miura being ordered to come to Shanghai.
Fujiwara Nao frowned slightly, sighed and said: "Commander Anan is a very stubborn person."
"The Changsha battle this time failed to achieve the expected results, which was a shame for him. It is also expected that he would want to regain his dignity on the battlefield."
"Chen Yang, I still have to remind you that many officers in the empire have very strange personalities."
"You have to be flexible when dealing with these people, so that they don't cause trouble for you for some strange reasons."
"For example, Commander Anan. You don't need to offend this person. After all, he has good qualifications and connections."
"By the way, I have already discussed the matter you mentioned to me last time with Minister Mine."
"If the Imperial Navy can successfully capture Indonesia, they will not destroy the Minas and Dupont oil fields,"
"However, in exchange, they need to get a certain share of oil as compensation."
Chen Yang nodded and said, "That's no problem. I can discuss it with the Shell Asia director."
Fujiwara Nao silently drank a sip of tea and suddenly said, "Chen Yang, you are trying every means to get in touch with the Minas and DuPont oil-producing areas. Are you trying to get in touch with the Americans?"
"Mr. Fujiwara, why do you think so?" Chen Yang was shocked and did not admit it.
Fujiwara Nao said slowly: "The biggest key to Shell's layout in Indonesia is the Rockefeller family of the United States."
"You don't want us to occupy the oil fields and wreak havoc, so obviously you want to get in touch with them."
"Considering the oil you brought in for the navy before, I don't think you'd be willing to spend so much money just for the oil-producing area in Indonesia."
"But if your target is this American, I think it's understandable."
"It's just that I don't understand, Chen Yang, don't you think highly of the battle between the Empire and the Americans?"
Chen Yang pondered silently for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I'm not sure how far the Empire's fight against the United States will go."
"What I value are resources and benefits."
"I think this oil field can bring me enough benefits, so I will try to keep them."
Fujiwara Nao obviously knew that Chen Yang was not telling the truth, but he did not continue asking.
If Chen Yang really wanted to say it, he would definitely say it now. Since he refuses to tell the reason, it is useless to ask him any more.
"Chen Yang, go back and rest early." Fujiwara Nao felt a little disappointed.
Chen Yang seemed to hear that Fujiwara Nao was a little bored, so he stood up, bowed slightly, and turned to leave the room.
Two days later, Fujiwara Nao boarded a train to the Northeast and set off for the Far Eastern border to meet with Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Gromyko.
Commander Anan's personal adviser, Yuutarou Miura, ultimately failed to gain the support of the expeditionary army's top brass.
The expeditionary force decided to support the mainland's resolution and sent part of its troops, including the 1st Division, the 3rd Division and other Type A units, to Southeast Asia to participate in the Southward Advance Plan.
This time, the Japanese plan for the southward advance required the fleet to capture the British colonies as quickly as possible after launching an attack on the United States.
Including Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines defended by the Americans.
While the Japanese were busy planning their southward strategy, Britain and the United States also reached an alliance agreement in private.
The two sides agreed to use the British Prince of Wales as the main force to contain the Japanese army's southward advance plan in the Pacific region.
The U.S. Pacific Fleet has made preparations to rush to Asia as quickly as possible if war breaks out.
At this time, the United States did receive some top-secret intelligence from China, which repeatedly reminded Americans that the Japanese might cross the 3,500-nautical-mile Pacific Ocean and attack the U.S. fleet directly.
However, after several assessments by their intelligence agencies, they considered the possibility to be very small.
Moreover, intelligence organizations in Asia did not receive any orders from the Japanese Navy to assemble its forces.
Therefore, they all agreed that it was the Shancheng side that deliberately used some exaggerated intelligence to ask the Americans for weapons and financial assistance.
The time came to November 26th, 1941.
The Japanese Combined Fleet set out from Dankan Bay in the Chiba Islands. This time there were some slight differences from history.
Isoroku Yamamoto devoted all his naval forces to attacking the Pacific Fleet.
In addition to all the aircraft carriers in service, in order to ensure the success of this plan, Japan also brought five battleships, three cruisers, nine destroyers and three submarines.
In addition, ten tankers, two destroyers, and five transport ships were waiting in the North Pacific.
Moreover, because they had a huge amount of oil as their trump card, they dispatched a total of 572 carrier-based aircraft this time.
This is more than two hundred more aircraft than originally planned.
On the morning of November 26, under the order of His Excellency Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, this huge fleet was ordered to sail into the turbulent waters of the Pacific Ocean.
The combat target was Pearl Harbor, the Pacific Fleet supply base, more than 3,000 nautical miles away.
Shortly after the navy set out, the army headquarters also issued an order to assemble the troops.
The first, third, and fourth flight teams of the Japanese Air Force Group, which were originally deployed in China and had just been assembled from the reserve forces on the mainland, were ordered to move south.
They activated their air bases in Southeast Asia as soon as they received news of victory at Pearl Harbor.
These air forces would bomb British and American colonies such as Hong Kong Island, Singapore, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines and Burma.
Immediately afterwards, 400,000 Southern troops will launch attacks on Southeast Asia as quickly as possible.
All plans were simulated by the local General Staff and the Operations Command Room, and the Japanese had great confidence in this.
Ten days later, it was Sunday, December 7, 1941.
The Combined Fleet stopped 230 nautical miles from Pearl Harbor.
Vice Admiral Nagumo, commander of the Combined Fleet, gave the order to bomb Pearl Harbor to more than 500 pilots on the bridge.
Accompanied by the loud voice of "Long live the Emperor", a group of pilots of bombers, torpedo planes and carrier-based aircraft entered the engine room one after another.
Countless planes instantly took off from the deck against the wind, aiming directly at Pearl Harbor 200 miles away...
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