When we arrived on the morning of December 17, 1941, the sun flag was already flying over Lihue, the capital of Kauai. The Japanese Army's Taiwan Mixed Brigade occupied the place on the afternoon of the 16th with the support of two army aircraft carriers.

Lieutenant General Paulus, the commander of the German Military Advisory Corps, who had been drifting at sea for more than 20 days, is now finally standing on the solid and stable ground. At 10 a.m. on the 17th, he was taking his "monetary photographer" Lieutenant Rudolph von Ribbintrov to visit several Japanese naval tanks parked on the dock.

Are tanks useful for "ships"? Of course there are. The Japanese Navy stipulated that their tanks are "one" and "two", rather than one or two. By the way, the Japanese Navy's tanks are not called "fighting tanks", but are called "internal fire boats".

After seeing the army aircraft carrier, Paulus and Ribbentrop Jr. have now opened their eyes again. However, what opened their eyes was not that the Navy Tank Army had aircraft carriers, the two Germans had never heard of it, but it is very common for the Navy to have tanks. The German Marine Corps is also equipped with many No. 3 tanks eliminated by the Army, and the General Administration of Military Affairs has also issued instructions to develop amphibious and land tanks.

However, the idea of ​​using submarines to transport tanks to attack sneak attacks still made Lieutenant General Paulus and Lieutenant Ribbintrov lit up.

The German Navy has many submarines, with 400 ships in all sizes. If they can be used to transport tanks to attack the British mainland, wouldn’t it be possible to send an armored division to the British mainland overnight!

However, the Japanese Navy does not have so many submarines, nor does it have so many tanks. Now there are only 30 "inner fire boats" transported to Kauai. They will take 15 submarines to sneak attack the Kamehameha Fort and Randolph Fort on Oahu.

According to the investigation by Japanese intelligence agencies, the frontal defenses of the Kamehameha Fort and Randolph Fort located on the coast of Honolulu were relatively "laxed", and no anti-tank trenches were dug, nor did they deploy any anti-tank weapons.

Who would have thought of digging anti-tank trenches on the beach on the front of the turret with 14-inch and 8-inch cannons? As long as those cannons are not destroyed, the enemy's landing ships, landing crafts and other things will never be close. If even the armored turrets are destroyed, then the enemy must have many powerful battleships. What other functions can anti-tank trenches and anti-tank guns play?

Therefore, using a submarine to transport tanks to the front of the Kamehameha Fort and Randolph Fort is definitely a revolutionary genius idea.

Moreover, the Special Type 2 internal fireboat used by the Japanese to realize this genius idea also looks quite good. The hull and turret are welded with steel plates, and the front and back steel plates of the boat are placed inclined to increase bulletproof effect. The Special Type 2 internal fireboat is not weak either, with a 37mm tank gun and 2 7.7mm machine guns. Compared with a light tank with a total combat weight of only 9.15 tons (on land) and 12.5 tons (on water, with floating boxes), the firepower is definitely not weak.

In addition, the floating box of the Special Type 2 internal fireboat is also carefully designed. It can be disassembled and after the floating box is installed, the Special Type 2 will become a small boat with tracks and load-bearing wheels. It can sail at a speed of 9.5 km/h, and the farthest can be driven 140 km. If it is on the shore, the maximum speed of the Special Type 2 internal fireboat is 37 km/h and the maximum range is 320 km.

Just as Paulus and Little Ribbintrov observed carefully around a Japanese Navy tank, someone suddenly shouted: "Air strike! Air strike! Hidden hide..."

Paulus and Little Ribbintrop did not understand Japanese, but when they saw the North Korean coolies unloading goods from two Japanese freighters around them running towards the air defense trench, they knew what was going on.

However, the two German military advisers did not go drilling the pit, but ran into a coconut forest not too far from the bay at the risk of being hit by a bomb. They raised their telescopes and began to watch the bombing.

There are many American aircraft coming, enough for 140 or 50, and they come in a group to give people a feeling of covering the sky and the sun. However, there are not many Japanese aircraft intercepting invading enemy aircraft in the air, only 10 Japanese Army One fighters. These One fighters have been specially modified and can take off and land on Army aircraft carriers. In fact, they are a kind of army carrier-based fighter. Except for the range of the Navy, their performance is almost the same as those of the Navy Zero aircraft, and even the appearance looks similar, so they are often confused by their enemies.

"10 Type Zero, Major McBell, I'll leave it to you!" Lieutenant Colonel Olter, who was commanding the US fighter jets, also mistakenly thought of the Japanese Type Zero fighter in the sky. He issued an order to Major McBell, who was the commander-in-chief of the fighter jet formation through the airborne radio station, and then began to observe the situation on the sea.

"Two aircraft carriers!" He immediately discovered two Japanese Army aircraft carriers on the sea. "It is two light aircraft carriers. The dive bomber is first, and then the torpedo bomber! Let's go and sink them!"

Lieutenant Colonel Olt, himself a pilot of the SBD Fearless Diving Bomber. He assigned tasks to several of his dive bombers and torpedo attack aircraft squadrons. Then he took the lead and rushed towards the Japanese Army aircraft carrier "Akizumaru". In just 3 minutes, 18 SBDs completed bomb drops and smashed three 1,000-pound armor-piercing bombs on the poor Army aircraft carrier. All three bombs penetrated.

The wooden flight deck was blown up in the empty hangar (the fighter jets on the aircraft carrier were all transferred to Lihue Airport). Another one drilled into the engine compartment and fryed the diesel engine on the ship to pieces. The last one fell to the bottom of the bow, and a large hole was opened at the bottom of the bow of the Akitsumaru. The sea water surged uncontrollably, and the 11,800-ton aircraft carrier quickly sank into the sea at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Three minutes later, bad luck came to the "Shenzhou Maru". The 8,000-ton army aircraft carrier was hit by two 1,000-pound bombs with two torpedoes, and the hull was broken into two pieces and sank into the Pacific Ocean.

After the American aircraft cleanly killed two army aircraft carriers, dozens of black dots appeared in the sky in the northeast, which should be the carrier-based aircraft sent by the Japanese aircraft carrier. Lieutenant Colonel Olter, who had just made great contributions, believed that the contribution of the two aircraft carriers was enough, and there was no need to risk the transport ships and oil tankers on the sea, so he issued an order to retreat. All American aircraft in the sky that had not yet dropped bombs lost bombs and torpedoes and fled before the arrival of Japan's Zero aircraft.

An air strike ended in less than 10 minutes, and the Imperial Japanese Army's dream of aircraft carrier was completely shattered.

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"Baga! Two aircraft carriers were cut in 10 minutes, Army Red Deer!"

In the "Yamato Hotel", when General Yamamoto Issue No. 16, when he heard that two army aircraft carriers were sunk by the Americans, he immediately started to curse.

This army aircraft carrier is also an aircraft carrier! Although the carrier-based aircraft is a little small, it can still be used as an escort aircraft carrier as long as it is modified. Now it is easily sank by Americans, which is really unforgivable!

Ugaki Chief of Staff of the Joint Fleet also said a little angrily: "A good army, what kind of aircraft carriers are built? Isn't this a mess? If the army was willing to hand over these two aircraft carriers to our navy, there would be no such consequences."

Yamamoto nodded in agreement. The Army is just a group of fools who are just fools who can make a fuss. As expected, it is still up to the navy to fight such things!

"Where is the first maneuver fleet?" Yamamoto Iroku asked again at this time, "Can you get a US aircraft carrier?"

Now the First Maneuver Fleet and Yamamoto's main force have taken action separately. Nagamoto left two light aircraft carriers into the First Fleet where Yamamoto is located. Together with one of the original light aircraft carriers of the First Fleet, there are three light aircraft carriers under the First Fleet. The First Fleet has only 6 large fleet aircraft carriers left.

"Commander, the First Mobile Fleet is northwest of Kauai, about 80 nautical miles from Kauai."

"Then let Nanyun pursue the US fleet immediately as soon as he discovers it!" Yamamoto Iroku paused and said, "Order the First Submarine Force, the Second Submarine Force and the Third Submarine Force to go east of Hawaii Island to launch immediately. If the US transport fleet is found, report it immediately!"

"Hayi!"

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"What? The two aircraft carriers of the Army sank?" Natsuki Nakayama was also surprised when he heard the news. "Aren't there 24 aircraft on Kauai? Why are they still fighting like this?"

"Commander, how can the Army Aviation be compared with our Navy Aviation?" Genda Mi explained, "They have no sense of covering the aircraft carrier at all."

"That's right!" Natsuyu Takashi gritted his teeth, "What kind of aircraft carriers are these stupid Army? It's so stupid..." He looked back at Genda, "We must avenge the Army aircraft carriers now! Send all the 'comets' out and find the US aircraft carrier."

Minami Genda immediately said: "The commander has sent four Zero fighter jets to follow the US aircraft group, and he should be able to find the location of the US aircraft carrier soon."

The four Zero aircraft sent by Yuantian were a four-plane formation led by Hessman. As soon as he went to heaven to serve as a direct cover, Yuantian sent him to Kauai. Instead of asking them to fight American aircraft, they were asked to follow them quietly to find American aircraft carriers.
Chapter completed!