Chapter 872: Sneak Attack on Hawaii

On June 12, 1936, the German and French armies launched a rather brutal offensive and defensive battle in Charleroi.

In order to keep the German army out of the border, the French government was willing to go all out. In cooperation with the 100,000 troops supported by the British, the 100,000 troops mobilized in Belgium and its own 400,000 troops were to defend the line from Charleroi to Kortrijk.

The good news is that up to 600,000 British, French and Belgian troops successfully blocked the German army from Kortrijk to Charleroi to the north.

But the bad news is that all Belgian cities to the north, including the original capital Brussels and another large city Antwerp, all fell into the control of the Germans.

At present, the territory controlled by the Belgian government is less than one-fifth of the original territory, and the 100,000 troops maintained are almost the limit of Belgium.

Although there are many Belgians in the areas occupied by Germany who bravely resisted, it is better to pray for victory on the front battlefield than to rely on these Belgian people to defeat the German rule.

The current situation in Europe is obviously favorable to Germany and Italy. But the problem is that if France or Austria cannot be defeated quickly, the German and Italian armies will sooner or later be exhausted when the support troops from Britain and Australasia continue to arrive on the European continent.

In addition to pinning their hopes on the island countries to participate in the war, the Germans also began to contact their other ally in Western Europe, Spain, which has completed ideological transformation and established a new government.

Spain's position is still very important. France is currently fighting on two fronts, attacking Italy in the south and defending Germany in the north.

If Spain can join the war, the French army will have to divide a part of it to guard against the Spanish army.

If France wants to withdraw troops, the biggest possibility is to withdraw a part of the army attacking Italy in the south to guard against Spain.

This will reduce the pressure on Italy and allow Italy to put its army into the attack on Austria.

More importantly, Spain is located at the western outlet of the Mediterranean Sea, and its importance is unquestionable.

Once Spain joins the German-Italian alliance, the Germans will be able to quickly seize Gibraltar through Spain and open up a passage from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Ocean for the German-Italian alliance.

In this way, Germany and Italy can obtain external materials through the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, and make up for part of the gap with colonial powers such as Britain and France.

For Germany and Italy, if either Spain or the island countries can join this war, they can expand their advantages a lot.

Once both countries are willing to join this war, then the balance of victory will continue to tilt towards them.

When Europe was in dire straits, Arthur was also patiently waiting for the response of the island countries in Oceania.

At present, it is indeed a good opportunity for the German-Italian alliance and the island countries to defeat their competitors.

Once this opportunity is missed, it will become much more difficult to defeat countries such as Britain, France and Australasia.

Moreover, the island countries are originally a country that is good at gambling on national destiny. Arthur believes that the island countries cannot resist the temptation to defeat Australasia, and they are destined to join the war.

What is the reason? After the demise of the United States, the island countries no longer have large import and export partners.

Australasia has a lot of mineral resources and oil energy that the island countries are extremely short of, but Australasia prohibits exporting to the island countries.

Although the island countries can also obtain a small amount of materials from more distant areas, the freight and time costs will be higher, which is also the reason why the industrial development of the island countries has stagnated.

If the island countries want to change this situation, they must start a war with Australasia. The winner can have more resources, including mineral resources and oil energy that the island countries are in urgent need of.

As expected, Arthur did not wait long.

June 17, 1936, Hawaii.

A fleet with 6 aircraft carriers as the main force is slowly moving towards Hawaii. In order to conceal, except for necessary communication, the radios of all warships remain silent most of the time.

This fleet not only has 6 powerful aircraft carriers, but also 2 battleships, 3 cruisers, 9 destroyers and 3 submarines.

Obviously, such a powerful lineup of warships is an ultra-luxury fleet that non-powerful countries can't take out.

At 6 o'clock in the evening, the fleet finally successfully arrived in the waters 100 kilometers away from Hawaii, and continued to approach Hawaii at an extremely low speed.

At 12 o'clock in the evening, the fleet was very close to the port of Hawaii. In order to prevent being detected by radar, the warship officially stopped 60 kilometers away from Hawaii with the order of the warship commander, Lieutenant General Chuichi Nanyun.

The three submarines began to dive, and after diving to a sufficient depth, they continued to slowly move towards the port of Hawaii.

At about two o'clock in the morning, the planes on the six aircraft carriers also began to take off. One after another, the planes flew into the sky, and after reaching the highest speed in the nearby sky, they rushed towards Hawaii.

At about 2:36 in the morning, Hawaii Naval Base.

"Andrick, do you think the islanders will declare war on us?" Radar observer Henry looked at his comrade-in-arms, Andrick, who was also a radar observer, a little bored.

"Who knows? Henry." Andrick shook his head and replied, "But I think those dwarves don't have the courage to declare war on us. We are not the former Tsarist Russia. As long as your majesty gives an order, I am willing to be the first to land on the island country and let those damn islanders understand how big the gap between their strength and ours is."

Henry smiled and nodded, without any doubt about Andrick's words.

They, the radar monitors, also belong to the army, and are considered technicians and civilian arms in the army.

But even these technicians, as long as Arthur gives an order, are still willing to carry long guns and join the army's charge.

Under Arthur's constant influence, the army's loyalty to the royal family and Arthur himself is very high. Even these ordinary naval soldiers are still full of enthusiasm and trust in Arthur.

"Damn! What is that?" Just as the two were chatting and mocking the island country, a large number of bright spots suddenly appeared on the radar, which immediately attracted their attention.

"Damn, are these things airplanes?" Henry asked Andrick in surprise and astonishment, and incredulously.

"Damn, I'm afraid so, Henry. Contact the fleet headquarters quickly, a large number of unknown objects are rapidly approaching Hawaii." Andrick said hurriedly.

Such news was quickly detected by other radars and reported to the Navy's headquarters.

Before the Pacific Fleet could react, the enemy's attack had already arrived.

Of course, the attack did not come from the sky, but from under the ocean.

Boom!

A torpedo hit a medium-sized destroyer docked in the port, directly blowing a big hole in the destroyer.

Because it was already early in the morning, except for a small number of naval soldiers on duty on the destroyer, most of the naval soldiers were in the naval base in the port.

Although this prevented more soldiers from facing life and death crises, it also slowed down the navy's response to the attack.

"Damn, all combat personnel immediately return to their warships, and carrier-based fighters immediately take off to guard against possible air attacks by the enemy." Commander-in-Chief of the Australasian Pacific Fleet, Vice Admiral Jon Odell, hurriedly ordered.

Although it is not clear which force and country attacked the Hawaiian naval base, it is likely that it is the islanders.

After all, in the Pacific Ocean, only the island country has both the strength and motivation to attack the Australasian Navy.

Although General Jon had been on guard against the islanders, he did not expect that the islanders could cross thousands of kilometers to directly attack the base of the Australasian Pacific Fleet.

You know, the distance between the island country and the Hawaiian naval base is much farther than the distance between the island country and New Guinea.

The Pacific Fleet's defense against the islanders is mainly to prevent the islanders from attacking important areas such as New Guinea.

But I didn't expect that the islanders were so crazy that they crossed half of the Pacific Ocean just to attack a small Hawaii.

Boom!

During the period when General Jon gave the order, another torpedo hit a cruiser.

When facing the attack of torpedoes, small and medium-sized warships basically have to sink as long as they are hit.

Only main warships of tens of thousands of tons can withstand torpedoes, but if they are unlucky and hit in a more vulnerable place, there is also a risk of sinking.

Just as the navy soldiers quickly returned to their warships, a continuous buzzing sound was heard in the sky.

General Jon knew that it was the plane of the islanders.

Listen carefully to the buzzing sound in the sky, which seems to be deafening, which proves that the number of planes dispatched by the islanders is not small.

"Very good, since you have the courage to sneak attack us, then be prepared to sink in this sea forever." General Jon sneered and issued the most anticipated order since he became the commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet: "All main battleships, the first round of anti-aircraft missiles!"

The launch of missiles takes a certain amount of time, and this period of time just allows the islanders' planes to get closer to the naval base in Australasia.

The night concealed the whereabouts of these islanders' planes, but the increasingly obvious buzzing sound proved that these islanders' planes were getting closer and closer.

About ten seconds later, when the frontmost island aircraft spit out flames, the missiles of the main battleships of the Pacific Fleet were officially launched into the sky.

Bang! Boom!

With two distinctly different sounds, a large number of unidentified objects with bright flames flew rapidly in the direction of the buzzing sound.

"What is this?" Many island pilots looked at the flames getting closer and closer, and the outlines of some materials illuminated by the flames, and widened their eyes and fell into deep thought.

Seeing these objects getting closer and closer, many island pilots reacted and tried to control the aircraft to avoid them.

But they soon found something wrong. Obviously, these things with flames on the tail can only be seen as long strips, and their speed is faster than their aircraft.

Boom! Boom!

Although this process seems long, it actually takes less than a minute.

A large number of missiles quickly flew into the group of island aircraft, and many missiles hit the target.

Looking at the flames exploding in the sky, General Jon nodded with satisfaction and finally smiled: "Before the enemy reacts, all carrier-based aircraft should be dispatched immediately. Do not let any enemy aircraft go.

The fleet released sonar to detect submarines underwater. I don't want any more warships to be attacked and sunk by the enemy. "

As the sonar was released, the Australasian warships also began to launch torpedoes to attack the enemy's submarines underwater.

The submarines of the Pacific Fleet also began to dive to find the enemy's submarines.

A large number of Australasian aircraft began to take off. They had only one goal, which was to chase the island country aircraft that had fallen into chaos.

Obviously, high-tech products such as missiles are completely unknown to these islanders.

Although the missile's hit rate is not high, the first round of missile salvos fired at least 200 missiles, and less than 30 missiles hit the island country aircraft.

But nearly 30 aircraft were destroyed before they met, which would definitely make these island country pilots stunned and even panic.

In fact, if it weren't for the night being too dark, covering up the whereabouts of these island country aircraft If the missiles were launched, the hit rate of the missiles could be further improved.

But it doesn't matter anymore. The missiles successfully delayed more than a minute of precious time for the Australasian Navy, which also allowed many warships and aircraft to react and avoid being successfully attacked by the enemy again.

The Pacific Fleet currently has a total of 12 main warships, 4+5+3, including 5 aircraft carriers.

If it were a complete Pacific Fleet, it would not be afraid of the attack by the island country this time.

But the problem is that in order to guard against possible attacks by the islanders and to carry out patrol missions, 2 battleships, 2 aircraft carriers and 1 battlecruiser were sent out to perform missions.

This also means that the current Hawaiian Naval Base actually has only 2 battleships, 3 aircraft carriers and 2 battlecruisers.

Because Hawaii is an isolated island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and there are no islands of other countries within hundreds of kilometers.

Therefore, Hawaii does not have an air force base. The number of aircraft Hawaii has depends entirely on the number of aircraft on the aircraft carriers of the Pacific Fleet stationed in Hawaii.

Because there are only three aircraft carriers at present, this has greatly reduced the number of aircraft Hawaii has.

On the island side, six aircraft carriers and various other modified warships carry a total of more than 400 carrier-based aircraft.

The number of aircraft carried by the three aircraft carriers of Australasia is only a little over 200, only half of the number of aircraft of the island country.

Although 30 island country aircraft were destroyed at the beginning, the number of enemy aircraft is still far ahead of Australasia. Asia.

And after the air forces of both sides started fighting, the missiles of Australasia were useless.

The current missiles cannot accurately lock the enemy. In this dark night sky, if the missile accidentally hits your own plane, it will be a lot of fun.

The good news is that in terms of aircraft performance, Australasia is still far ahead of the island countries. Although the Australasia Air Force is basically a one-on-two situation, it is not difficult to fight one-on-two with the powerful combat power of the aircraft.

However, because there are nearly 600 aircraft in the sky of the naval base, it is difficult for Australasia's aircraft to play a speed advantage and cannot defeat the island country quickly.

At 3:17 in the morning, a torpedo launched by the island country's submarine hit an Australasia battleship.

The good news is that the armor protection capability of this battleship is very excellent. Although the torpedo caused the battleship's armor to fall off and the hit hull was also somewhat deformed, it did not affect the battleship's combat effectiveness and could only be barely regarded as a minor injury.

After discovering the submarine, the counterattack of the Australasian fleet also directly destroyed the submarine.

The submarine is underwater, how to judge whether the enemy's submarine has been sunk?

The principle is also very simple. Although the submarine is underwater, if the submarine is sunk, the various living supplies in the submarine will float on the water surface, and the fuel used by the submarine will also float on the sea surface because of the property of oil floating on water.

Seeing that the sneak attacking plane was dragged by the Australasian plane, the islanders were a little restless.

Many bombers hidden in the rear were dispatched, and when all the Australasian planes were dispatched to intercept the island fighters, they began to attack the Australasian warships and naval bases in the port.

But what the islanders did not expect was that Australasian installed a large number of anti-aircraft weapons on warships and ports, including small-caliber machine guns and anti-aircraft missiles.

A round of bomber attacks did not cause too many casualties in Australasian, but instead caused the island's bomber formation to lose at least 20 bombers.

You know, when the islanders were in action this time, the number of bombers they carried was only one-sixth of the total number of aircraft, which is about 70.

Such an attack caused the islanders to lose half of their bombers. How can this be justified?

There was no hope of a quick victory in the direct confrontation of the air force, and the side attack was easily repelled by the enemy, which put the islanders in a dilemma for a while.

Where is the hope? The islanders can only pin their hopes on the fleet that is coming quickly.

After all, according to the islanders' intelligence, the Pacific Fleet of Australasia is not fully staffed at this time. This fleet carefully prepared by the islanders can completely compete with the current Pacific Fleet.

As long as they can gain an advantage in the sky, the final result of this not glorious naval battle is still the victory of the islanders.

This is also the final result that the islanders think of. After all, the number of aircraft on both sides is a full two times difference.

From the perspective of the islanders, maintaining a two-fold aircraft gap is the result of the islanders' best efforts.

If the two-fold aircraft gap is still not enough to gain an advantage, then the islanders have no other choice. After all, they are completely inferior to Australasia in terms of aircraft production and reserves.

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