Who Is Six Hundred and Twenty-Two?

When the Japanese United Fleet retreated to the Japanese mainland to rest, the entire fleet seemed to be shrouded in dark clouds. Everyone seemed to be suppressing their frustration, and sobbing sounds seemed to be heard in every corner.

Everyone abandoned 40,000 marines, as well as colleagues in the army, and left the waters near the Hawaiian Islands where they had been fighting for half a month. Except for the loss of a large number of aircraft in the aircraft carrier fleet, only a few warships were injured .

For Japanese soldiers who have been trained in Bushido spirit since childhood, they feel that their despicable escape is an extremely irresponsible behavior and a betrayal of the Japanese Empire, so now everyone has no glory on their faces, and some people even feel privately. Yamamoto should be blamed for his stupid decision to kill himself by caesarean section.

There are also a few officers who know that Yamamoto's decision is the right choice. Most of them are low-level officers who have no ambitions, and many of them are real technical backbones. Only they understand how weak the Japanese fleet is, and only they understand Yamamoto's retreat. A moment of helplessness. The Combined Fleet is the only essence of the Japanese Navy. This fleet has never been rested since the war began, and it has no power to replace it. In the end, this powerful sea force was dragged down by the naval blitz on the Pacific battlefield, and went to the direction of the Nazi armored forces. no return.

Seemingly marching towards victory, it was as if the German armored forces were getting closer and closer to Moscow in another time and space. That kind of beautiful vision of victory makes it easy to forget many things, such as forgetting that the troops need to rest and replenish...

Standing on his own bridge, Yamamoto Fifty-Six suddenly remembered a brief combat intelligence report from the Army Ministry, which showed that Germany gave up the opportunity to attack the Soviet Union and organized a defense line on the Dnieper River. At that time, the officers of the Army Ministry were still laughing at the Germans for their cowardice, not daring to take the initiative to attack even in an advantageous situation.

He now knows why the German army stopped along the Dnieper River. Just as Japan faced the distant east coast of the United States, Germany was too far away when facing Moscow. 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 foolish move, while the Japanese realized it later, and only remembered to passively preserve their strength when their attack was weak-it's really a god It's too bad.

"The head of state of Germany...is really a guy with a unique and correct strategic vision." Yamamoto sighed a little sourly and said, "Why aren't such people from our Great Japanese Empire? If there are more people like this , then our current situation will not be so passive, right?"

I don't know that Akado, who is reviewing the analysis report on Germany's future economic situation in the wolf's lair, knows what Yamamoto will think of him when he makes such an evaluation. Will he sneer and pat the admiral of the Japanese Empire on the shoulder, telling him that if he is in Japan, Japan will lose faster and worse.

Just when Yamamoto suddenly thought of such a distant and seemingly irrelevant figure as Akado, a few nautical miles behind the flagship Nagato, in the aviation officer cabin of the Akagi aircraft carrier,

An exasperated Sato was yelling at Yamamoto's order to withdraw troops. After all, as a front-line Air Force pilot, his words were quite convincing.

"We air force pilots are not afraid of death! We didn't back down, why did he let us retreat? Why did he let us run away with our tails between our legs? He is still a marshal, and he doesn't even have a little bit of shame in the Imperial Japanese* What? If he really has any so-called self-esteem, he should kill himself now!" Several of his subordinates stood listening to his lecture, but none of them raised their heads.

Everyone knew the situation at that time. If the planes were taken off again to attack the US warships, most of the pilots and planes would never return. After all, the Americans were fighting more and more bravely at that time, and there were land-based aircraft as cover and supplements. The Japanese aircraft were at an absolute disadvantage in numbers. Once the battle continued to stalemate, the entire First Air Fleet would be exhausted in the waters near Oahu.

When everyone was ready to die, it was Marshal Yamamoto who pulled them back from hell, saying that he was not slightly grateful, that would be a lie. It's just that most of the military officers are now yelling at Yamamoto for not being loyal to the country, and as soldiers at the grassroots level, they don't dare to talk nonsense. But the basic judgment made them choose to shut up, instead of following the fanatics to slander their commander and marshal.

"Shut up!" Outside the door, General Nagumo Chuichi looked at his proud subordinate sternly with his hands behind his back. If it was something else in his daily life, he would never scold this brave man who dared to sacrifice himself for the empire. But he must speak now, to speak a fair word for his boss.

Although Nagumo also wanted to kill himself on Oahu, he realized Yamamoto's helpless mood when he calmed down. Although it seemed more sad and majestic to fight the US fleet on Oahu, it was true for those who lacked Japan without hematopoietic ability is tantamount to suicide.

Nagumo, who wanted to understand everything, turned to admire his boss, so he resolutely ordered his fleet to follow Nagumo all the way back west, without any intention of complaining about Yamamoto Fifty-Six. From an official point of view, since some people are willing to take the blame for the retreat of the First Air Fleet, Nanyun is also willing to keep his own fleet as the main force for counterattack.

"General, I can't understand why we are retreating from Oahu!" Sato's younger brother served on the Kaga aircraft carrier and was also a fighter pilot. In the last assault, his younger brother drove the Zero The fighter plane was shot down by the US military, so he lost his composure.

"Sato-kun, I understand your feelings very well, and I also know what this retreat means. But we must understand the painstaking efforts of the marshal. After all, his decision saved the entire First Air Fleet..." Nagumo Zhongichi persuaded A few words, and then stopped talking, because in Sato's view, any retreat is shameful, and he would rather stay on Oahu to avenge his brother.

Japan’s Army Aviation supported 30 me-fighters on Kauai Island, 20 of which were imitated by Japan itself, using the original engines imported from Germany that year. These aircraft were regarded as the aircraft because there were no follow-up parts The last means of support was sent to Kauai. After these planes were exhausted, the Japanese soldiers on the Hawaiian Islands would not have any air support, and they would have to hold their ground on their own until the United Fleet returned.

Nagumo returned to his lounge, and just as he was about to take off his coat and lay down on the bed to rest for a while, there was a knock on the door. He had no choice but to put on his clothes again, arrange his appearance, and open the door. The result was a telegram from the telegraph room, from the flagship Nagato, saying that Marshal Yamamoto Fifty-Six will arrive at the Akagi in a small boat in ten minutes, and ask Nagumo to be ready to meet him.

When Nagumo saw the dejected Yamamoto Fifty-Six on the deck of the Akagi aircraft carrier, he almost didn't recognize this rapidly aging man. A few months ago, he was giving advice to himself in high spirits, but now he just Just a dying little old man.

"Nagumo-kun, the last thing you want to happen has happened. Our squadron in the waters near Australia was attacked by enemy submarines." Yamamoto said weakly: "The battleship Yamashiro was hit by four torpedoes and unfortunately sank. Our shelling operations against northern Australia have also had to be temporarily canceled."

Originally thought that Yamamoto Fifty-Six was here to blame himself for his unsteady retreat, which resulted in the loss of a large number of carrier-based aircraft, but now it seems that Yamamoto's current situation can no longer take care of blaming himself. While Nagumo let out a sigh of relief, he was frightened by the sinking of the Yamashiro.

"Yamashiro... sank? The most powerful battleship in the Empire of Japan was sunk by four torpedoes. This is absolutely impossible. Could it be that the message was wrong? Marshal..." Nanyun The first thing that came to mind was that the information was wrong, but soon he saw several telegrams that Yamamoto had sent him.

Among them are the distress signal and telegram sent by the cruiser Maya, as well as the confidential notice sent by the Ministry of the Navy. It seems that the Yamashiro has really sunk, and there is no possibility of falsehood. Nagumo looked away from the telegram and looked up at Yamamoto Fifty-Six: "A majestic battleship with a tonnage of tens of thousands was so easily sunk by a few torpedoes?"

Yamamoto smiled bitterly and shook his head. Wasn't the American battleship easily sunk by the torpedo bomb dropped by the Japanese plane? And what he was worried about was not the battleship Yamashiro, but a terrorist incident behind it.

Recently, the loss of Japanese ships near Australia has been abnormal. Anyone with a discerning eye can tell that this is not a normal loss data. In a vast sea area, there must be a fleet that is slaughtering the transport ships and warships of the Japanese Navy. But no one dared to put this matter on paper, because it was impossible for the Japanese navy to turn around and deal with such a small but amazingly powerful enemy.

It's a submarine! Yamamoto Fifty-Six knew very well in his heart that there must be a submarine force stationed in the eastern part of Australia, but he has nothing to do with this submarine force now, either the army will fight over it, or he can only pretend not to know. His division of troops to deal with this submarine will create a decisive battle for the United States. At this time, the main enemy of the Japanese Combined Fleet is the American fleet near Oahu, not such a troublesome submarine force.

Counting the days, the submarine force sent by Germany should have almost arrived in Australia. The appearance of the German head of state whom he had never met appeared in the newspaper uncomfortably in Yamamoto's mind. But he was not sure that all of this was done by the Germans. After all, the American submarine force also caused a lot of trouble to Japan.

"Who is it?" Under Nagumo's puzzled gaze, Yamamoto muttered in a low voice.