Chapter 622

When the Japanese United Fleet retreated to the Japanese mainland to rest, the whole fleet seemed to be shrouded in clouds. Everyone seemed to be depressed, and sobs could be heard in every corner.

We abandoned 40000 Marines and army colleagues and left the waters near the Hawaiian Islands, where we had been fighting for half a month. In addition to a large number of aircraft lost by the carrier fleet, only a few warships were injured.

For the Japanese soldiers who have been trained by the bushido spirit since childhood, they feel that their despicable escape is an extremely irresponsible act and a betrayal of the great Japanese Empire, so now everyone has no glory on their faces. Some people even privately feel that Yamamoto should commit suicide for his stupid decision.

There are also a few officers who know that Yamamoto's decision is the right choice. Most of them are unsuccessful junior officers, and many of them are real technical backbones. Only they can understand how weak the Japanese fleet is, and only they can understand Yamamoto's helplessness when he retreats. The joint fleet is the only essence of the Japanese Navy. Since the war, the fleet has been unable to rest and have no strength to replace it. Eventually, the powerful sea power was dragged down by the blitz of the Pacific battlefield and moved towards the return of the Nazi armored force.

It seems as if the German armored forces are getting closer and closer to Moscow in another time and space. It's easy to forget many things about the beautiful vision of victory, such as forgetting that the troops need to rest and supplement

Standing on his bridge, Yamamoto suddenly remembered a brief operational intelligence from the army Province, which showed that Germany had given up the opportunity to attack the Soviet Union and organized a defense line in the Dnieper River. At that time, the officers of the army province were still laughing at the Germans for being timid and not daring to take the initiative to attack even when they were superior.

He now knew why the German army would stop along the Dnieper River. Just as Japan faced the distant east coast of the United States, Germany faced Moscow too far away. The Germans didn't want to waste their precious armored forces, so they chose to stop halfway and wait for the Soviets to make a blind move again. However, the Japanese realized later that when they were weak in attack, they would think about passively preserving their strength. It's really very different.

"The German head of state... Is really a guy with unique strategic vision and correct attitude." Yamamoto sighed bitterly and said, "Why are such talents not from our great Japanese Empire? If there were more people like this, we would not be so passive now, would we? "

Akkado, who is reading the analysis report on Germany's future economic situation, does not know how Yamamoto would think about this. Will you sneer and pat the admiral of the Japanese Empire on the shoulder and tell him that if he is in Japan, Japan will lose faster and more miserably.

Just when Yamamoto suddenly thought of akado, a distant and seemingly unrelated figure, a few miles behind the flagship changmen, in the aviation officer cabin of the aircraft carrier Chicheng, Sato, in a rage, was cursing Yamamoto's withdrawal order. After all, as a front-line Air Force pilot, his words were more convincing.

"We Air Force pilots are not afraid of death! We didn't retreat. Why did he let us retreat? Why should he let us run away with our tails between our legs? He is still Marshal Yamamoto, even a little bit of Japanese emperor * People's integrity are not it? If he really has a little bit of self-esteem, he should kill himself on his stomach now! " Several of his men stood listening to him, and none of them raised their heads.

At that time, we all knew that if we took off the plane again to attack the US warships, most of the pilots and planes would never return. After all, the Americans were more courageous at that time, and there were land-based aircraft as a cover and supplement. Japanese aircraft were absolutely at a disadvantage in terms of number. Once the battle continued to stalemate, the entire first aviation fleet would have to go all out in the waters near Oahu Island.

When everyone was ready to die, marshal Yamamoto pulled them back from hell. He said that he was not grateful. That was a lie. But now most of the officers are cursing Yamamoto for not being loyal to his country, and as a soldier at the grass-roots level, they dare not talk nonsense. But the basic judgment made them choose to shut up and not follow the fanatics to slander their commander and marshal.

"Shut up Outside the door, general Nan yunzhongyi turned his back and looked at his proud subordinates sternly. If it was something else in his daily life, he would never scold the warrior who dared to die for the Empire, but now he must speak and say a fair word for his boss.

Although Nan Yun also wanted to kill himself in Oahu, he realized Yamamoto's helpless mood when he calmed down. Although it seemed more sad and majestic to fight with the U.S. fleet in Oahu, it was no different from suicide for Japan, which lacked hematopoietic capacity.

Nan Yun, who wants to understand everything, turns to admire his boss, so he firmly orders his fleet to follow Nan Yun all the way back, without complaining about Yamamoto. From the official point of view, since some people are willing to take the blame for the withdrawal of the first air fleet, Nanyun is willing to keep its own fleet as the main force of the counterattack.

"General, I can't understand why we're retreating from Oahu!" Sato's younger brother served on the aircraft carrier Kaga and was also a fighter pilot. In the last assault, his brother's Zero fighter was shot down by the US Army, so he was so impolite“ Mr. Sato, I understand your feelings very well. I also know what this retreat means. But we must understand Marshal's painstaking efforts. After all, his decision saved the entire first air fleet... "Nan Yunzhong advised a few words, and then stopped talking, because Sato thought that any retreat was shameful, and he would rather stay on Oahu Island to avenge his brother. Japan's special ground flight supported 30 me-109c fighters from lovely island, 20 of which were imitated by Japan and used the original engine imported from Germany in that year. Because there were no follow-up parts, these planes were sent to lovely island as a last resort. After these planes were exhausted, the Japanese soldiers on the Hawaiian Islands did not have any air support. They had to hold their positions by themselves until the United Fleet came back. Nan Yun went back to his lounge. Just as he wanted to take off his coat and lie on the bed for a rest, there was a knock on the door. He had to put on his clothes again, tidy up his appearance and open the door. As a result, a telegram from the telegraph room came from the long gate of the flagship. It said that marshal Yamamoto would arrive on the Chicheng in a small boat in ten minutes. Please prepare for it. When Nan Yun saw the decadent Yamamoto 56 on the deck of the Chicheng aircraft carrier, he almost didn't recognize the rapidly aging man. A few months ago, he was still in high spirits to instruct himself, but now he is just a dying little old man“ Nan Yunjun, the last thing we want to happen is that our sub fleet near Australia was attacked by enemy submarines. " Yamamoto said feebly: "Yamamoto battleship was struck by four torpedoes and sank. Our shelling against northern Australia has to be suspended." Originally, I thought Yamamoto had come to blame himself for the loss of a large number of carrier based aircraft due to his unswerving retreat. Now it seems that Yamamoto's current situation can no longer blame himself. At the same time, Nan Yun was frightened by the sinking of the mountain city“ The mountain city... Sank? It is absolutely impossible that the most powerful battleship of the great Japanese Empire was sunk by four torpedoes. Could it be that the message was wrong? Marshal... "Nan Yun's first thought was that the intelligence was wrong, but soon he saw several messages Yamamoto gave him. Among them were Mayer's distress signals and telegrams, as well as confidential notices from the Ministry of navy. It seems that the mountain city is really sunk, there is no possibility of any false. Nan Yun looked away from the message and looked up at Yamamoto 56: "a battleship of ten thousand tons is so easy to sink by several torpedoes?" Yamamoto gave a wry smile and shook his head. Is the American battleship easily sunk by the torpedo bomb dropped by the Japanese plane? What he worried about was not a battleship named Shancheng, but a terrorist event behind it. Recently, the loss of Japanese warships near Australia is unusual. People with a clear eye can see that this is not a normal loss data. In a vast sea area, there must be a fleet killing Japanese Navy transport ships and warships. But no one dare to put it on paper, because the Japanese Navy can't turn its head to deal with such a small but powerful enemy. It's a submarine! Yamamoto is very clear in his heart that there must be a Submarine Force stationed in the eastern part of Australia, but he has no way to use this submarine force now. Either the army will fight it, or he can only pretend he doesn't know. His division of forces against this submarine will give the United States a chance to make a decisive battle. At this time, the main enemy of the Japanese joint fleet is the U.S. fleet near Oahu Island, not such a troubling submarine force. Calculate the day, the submarine troops sent by Germany should have arrived in Australia. Yamamoto's mind uneasily came up with the newspaper that never met the head of Germany's appearance. But he was not sure that all this was done by the Germans. After all, the American submarine forces also caused a lot of trouble to Japan“ Who is it? " In Nan Yun's puzzled eyes, Yamamoto murmured.