"Commander, this is the Yamato's injury report!"

Captain Yamato battleship, Colonel Takayama Yoshiba, handed a report to Yamamoto Iroku. During the artillery battle with the American battleship last night, Yamato also suffered a lot of shells. Although he did not "break the effort", he still suffered a lot of "skin trauma". Some secondary guns were broken, lifeboats were broken, and two seaplanes were broken. In addition, many places were knocked into pits and not as beautiful as before.

"Don't look," Yamamoto Iroku waved his hand with a smile, "Takayaka, don't look reluctant. Yamato Ho made a living by her face, it's just a little bit of injury!"

The Yamato is finally not a "hotel" now, but a real battleship! It has withstood the most severe test, and its performance has made Yamamoto Iroku very satisfied.

"It's the Yamato!" Yamamoto smiled and said to Ugaki, chief of staff of the Joint Fleet. "The American battleships are no opponents at all. Their 14-inch cannons can only tickle the Yamato."

"Of course, Yamato is not a sinking ship!" Ugaki Chan also replied with a smile, "The budget of ships No. 110 and ships No. 111 should be no problem."

Ship 110 is the Yamato-class ship No. 3, and Ship 111 is the Yamato-class ship No. 4. These three battleships started construction in 1940, but now they are facing suspension due to funding and raw materials. However, with the battle of Yamato sinking three American battleships, Hideki Tojo naturally dared not cut down the budgets of Ship 110 and Ship 111 again.

Yamamoto Izuru nodded and said, "Following the performance of Yamato last night, I feel at ease to let it bombard Oahu."

"What? Commander, do you really want the Yamato to bombard Oahu?" Ugaki Chan was immediately reluctant to let go of Yamamoto's words. "There are 16-inch cannons on Oahu!"

Yamamoto Iroku smiled and said, "But only the Yamato's 460mm cannon can destroy the American turret and the two beached Colorado-class battleships at a distance of 20,000 to 30,000 meters."

According to the tests of the Japanese Navy, the Yamato 460mm main gun penetrated 566mm vertical armor at 20,000 meters and 167mm horizontal armor penetrated; the vertical armor penetrated 416mm vertical armor pendant at 30,000 meters and 0mm horizontal armor pendant. Although Iroku Yamamoto did not know the specific defense capabilities of the Colorado-level and Williston Fortress, the Yamato 460mm main gun should be able to destroy it.

"By the way, when will that guy Tsubasa Imamura arrive?" Yamamoto Iroku asked again about Lieutenant General Imamura, the commander of the 16th Army who was sent by "Silly Yuan" to command the army to attack Oahu.

Although Imamura is a lieutenant general of the army, he has a very good relationship with Yamamoto Iroku. Both of them are good at gambling and are considered gambling friends. Chief of Staff "Silly Moto" also knew that they had a good relationship, so Imamura was appointed as the commander of the newly formed 16th Army and led troops to attack Hawaii.

The 16th Army is under two divisions and one mixed brigade. The two divisions are the 2nd Division and the 38th Division, respectively. The 2nd Division is one of the permanent divisions before the Japanese army. The conscription site is located in Sendai, so it is also called the Sendai Division. The 38th Division is a newly established division with one less corps and only three less corpses than the permanent division (228, 229 and 0th Regiments). The weapons and equipment are also worse, and their combat effectiveness is not the same level as the 2nd Division. As for that brigade, it is naturally the Taiwan Mixed Brigade that occupied Kauai Island.

It is not enough to capture Oahu Island with two divisions and one mixed brigade of a total of more than 50,000 troops. However, the Japanese Army can only send out this number of people. It is not that there are no troops, but that the transportation capacity is really tight.

According to the Japanese Army's transportation plan, a division, including people, equipment, and ammunition and supplies that can fight a battle, would require almost 300,000 tons of merchant ships with displacement, and 2 divisions would be 600,000 tons. The Taiwan Mixed Brigade, plus thousands of North Korean civilians and some building materials and tools, 150,000 tons of merchant ships were used.

In other words, in the direction of Hawaii, there are as many as 750,000 tons of merchant ships serving the army alone! If the cargo ships and oil tankers requisitioned by the 1st Fleet and the 1st Mobile Fleet are included, the total tonnage of merchant ships occupied by the Japanese Army and Navy has exceeded 1.1 million tons!

At this time, the total tonnage of merchant ships in Japan was only 5.9 million tons, of which the maximum amount that could be requisitioned by the Navy and Army was only 3 million tons, otherwise Japan's domestic production would not be able to maintain.

This mere 3 million tons of merchant ship must be used for many offensive operations such as Hawaii operations, Philippines operations, Malay operations, Guam operations, Wake Island operations, etc. Therefore, "Silly Yuan" is also a fool who cannot cook without rice. It is already very interesting to be able to squeeze out 750,000 tons of merchant ships for Hawaii.

"Commander, Imamura Commander is now riding a transport ship with the 16th Army Command and the 38th Division in the North Pacific, and it will take about 3 days to reach Kauai."

Yamamoto Iroku hugged his arms and thought for a while, saying, "Then we will take three days to deal with the Williston Fort, Hatch Fort and two Colorado-class battleships. In this way, as soon as the troops from Imamura arrived, they could start landing... The Battle of Hawaii should still strive to make a quick decision!"

...

"Congratulations, Commander." Colonel Joseph Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Force in Hawaii, handed a telegram to his boss, Lieutenant General Walter Short, who had just received the telegram.

"Congratulations?" Lieutenant General Short was stunned. He couldn't figure out what good things would happen to him now.

“You were promoted to general,” Colonel Collins said. “And the president has appointed you to be the governor of the Hawaiian Islands.”

"General? Governor?" Short was slightly stunned, and then smiled bitterly. The rank of general was used to comfort the dead... Although he was not dead yet, President Roosevelt granted him the rank of general at this time and asked him to be the governor, obviously to make him stand firm on Oahu until the last person!

Surrender will not be allowed! Because General Short delayed on Oahu for one more day, the United States would have one more day to strengthen the defenses on Australia and the west coast of North America.

"The Army and the Navy have also jointly formulated a personnel retreat plan." Colonel Collins handed another document to Short. "There are many people who need to retreat, including Army Air and Navy Air Force personnel who lost their planes, Navy shipyards, Navy personnel who lost their ships, family members of officers and soldiers and white civilians on Oahu."

"How to retreat?" asked Admiral Shott, "Now the ports of Pearl Harbor and Huolunu are blocked by the Japanese, and the Pacific Fleet... How can those people withdraw?"

“People who have priority evacuation will be transported away by B-17 and Caterina seaplanes,” Colonel Collins said. “The Army and Navy pilots who lost the plane, the families of senior officers and the underage white people in Oahu all need priority evacuation. Then there are the aviation ground staff, naval engineers and white women…”

The plan for the retreating personnel was not gentlemanly at all, but it was absolutely correct. The pilots were the most preferred ones to withdraw. There were hundreds of such pilots on Oahu, but there were no planes for them to use, so it was useless to stay on Oahu. But once they got the plane elsewhere, it was a daunting force.

"There are other ways to use the b-17 and the Caterina seaplane?" Admiral Short could imagine the b-17 and the Caterina seaplane ventured to land at night, but what else could be done?

"With light cruisers and destroyers," Colonel Collins replied.

"How to use it? How do they pass the Japanese army's blockade?"

Colonel Collins shrugged, "I don't know this...but General Nimitz will definitely think of a solution."

"Nimitz? He is now..."

"He is the new commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet."

While the two were talking, General Short's phone ringtone suddenly remembered. Short picked up the phone receiver and put it in his ear. After listening for a while, his face, which was already ugly, became even more ugly.

He put down his receiver and said to Colonel Collins: "The Japanese super battleship is here! The lookout on Diamond Hill has seen it!"

...

"Mr. Minister, it was a mistake to place the fleet in Hawaii, and General Richardson had repeatedly opposed it."

"Chester, that's what the president means!" U.S. Navy Operations Secretary General Stark looked at General Nimitz, who had just been appointed as Commander of the Pacific Fleet and was preparing to take over as General Nimitz on the plane to San Diego. He remembered the two things that General Richardson, the former Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, was dismissed by Roosevelt more than a year ago for opposing the move of the Pacific Fleet home port to Pearl Harbor, and Nimitz refused to take over as Commander of the Pacific Fleet on the grounds of "insufficient qualifications"... If Nimitz had become the unlucky commander-in-chief at that time, then Kimmel should replace Nimitz now.

Stark sighed and continued, "The President now hopes to stick to Oahu as much as possible; at the same time, withdraw important personnel and civilians from the island (whites); and in the near future, a transportation of supplies and military to Australia will be completed. I think, do you know what to do?"

Nimitz smiled bitterly: "I'll try to complete these three tasks. By the way, when will those two North Carolina class ships arrive in San Diego? I think I need them to do it."

"Two North Carolina class?" Stark was startled by Nimitz's question, "Chester, do you want to use these two North Carolina class to deal with that Japanese super battleship?" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!