8:12, the second attack wave of the Japanese army returned in full swing, and it was nearly 3 years since the first attack wave launched the attack

The situation in Pearl Harbor is still deteriorating. The expanded burning heavy oil is flowing unscrupulously. The entire fuel depot arranged in Pearl Harbor has been completely destroyed in the flames. The heavy oil is thrown high and splashed around in the explosion and then "added bricks and tiles" to the fire. The fire dragon ruthlessly took away everything they could sweep away. The whole city was shrouded in a layer of smoke. Even hundreds of meters outside the central area of ​​the flames, the heat and despair can be felt. The temperature in the central combustion area has been silted for more than a thousand degrees. All trees, vehicles, houses, and municipal facilities are burning, and even the decorative iron blocks on the house, kilometers and the iron fences of the houses are burned red and fall off, and then they fall into the increasingly thicker and thicker layer of heavy oil to turn into a pile of black iron.

The fire continued to spread to the low-lying areas with heavy oil flowing. All the communities and people swept into it turned into black charcoal, and all the things that could be burned were added to become new ignition aids. The heated air formed a strong convection, and the influence of the sea breeze at the end of October further fueled the fire.

No one avoided it. Even the fire brigade had no choice but to block the heavy oil flow to the core area as much as possible according to the military's requirements. The dark and thick heavy oil even penetrated a large part of the municipal sewage pipeline along the ground gullies. At first, it seemed that the amount of flow was reduced, but as the heavy oil continued to accumulate and floated in the sewer, even the entire sewer system began to burn, which made the military even more bitter.

Everyone knows that in addition to sewage pipes, underground pipelines also have many kinds of wires, gas pipelines, etc. Even if the sewage pipes that cannot be burned, there is still a lot of naturally formed biogas silt. It is not a big problem in normal times. Now it is all dangerous goods that are flammable, explosive and easy to cause accidents. Explosions anywhere are a big problem, and today I guess I cannot be spared.

As expected, as the fire spread, hundreds of manhole covers were blown up one after another, the gas pipeline was blown up, and flames were ejected by dozens of meters high. The underground and overhead cables were engulfed by the flames, causing a series of death and short circuits. Although the power was not as powerful as the scene when the fuel depot exploded, it was also not small until all the heating, power and gas supply systems on Oahu were cut off, and the situation was slightly controlled. However, all civil power and communications on Pearl Harbor were also interrupted, and the situation was even more chaotic.

At the critical moment, American heroes also stood up. Donald Crent was a company commander of the engineer company. He ignored his low status and when the phone was blocked, he was blocked, and when the road was blocked, he took action first and then ordered his subordinates to carry out work according to his requirements. Then he carried fire protection suits and gas masks and armed off-road through the fire belt with great courage to run into the city defense headquarters, telling them that they were ready to blow up a passage facing the port area and guide hundreds of thousands of tons of heavy oil to pour into the port and let them flow into the sea! Although heavy oil will float and burn on the water, at least there is not so much ignition aid in the water, and it will not cause greater damage to life and property.

After discussing for 5 seconds, several bigwigs decided to adopt this suggestion. On the one hand, they authorized him to act immediately and sent two companies from the headquarters to his command. On the other hand, they informed the surviving ships on the sea, so that they could leave quickly so as not to be affected. To show their solemnity and convenience of command, Ingram untied his military rank and put it on Crent's shoulder, and gave him his officer's hat: "Young man, now you are a temporary admiral. Summon all the people you can find, and do it boldly! If you have any responsibilities in the future, I will bear it!"

At the moment when Pearl Harbor was in flames, several other land, sea, and remaining aircraft on Oahu, which were affected by the impact, took off in batches and rushed to the north, but this counterattack and attack lacked effective unified command, and the order was very chaotic. Pearl Harbor's explosion and fierce attacks not only caused great difficulties in gathering personnel everywhere, but the overall command system was even more chaotic. All officers only deployed counterattacks blindly or according to their own understanding. The pilots took off in groups of three or three, and then automatically formed an echelon when they met their companions in the air. At this moment, the US military was much more proactive than the Japanese pilots. The latter had no command or orders to attack alone. The Americans did not care about these things. They found the plane and flew to the north, and then rushed to the north.

8:29, the first attack wave of the Japanese army returned to Kashiroshi, Kashiya, Chitose and Chiyoda, which were arranged at the last side and landed. Although this decisive death attack was not really decisive, the casualty rate was quite large. Only 98 of the 174 aircraft attacked came back, with an overall combat loss rate of 44%. More than half of the lost aircraft were shot down by fighter jets taken off by the US military one after another, a small part was shot down by ground air defense firepower, and few were lost due to explosion involvement and other reasons.

Hori Teiki nodded with a serious expression and expressed her gratitude to the pilots. While swallowing rice balls or chocolates in big mouthfuls (this was what Hori Teiki asked to do), the pilots bragged with the familiar and unfamiliar ground crew and preparatory pilots around.

In order to speed up the pace of operation, the ground crew also began to learn from the US military to push it directly into the sea. Since the third attack wave was cancelled, the attack planes would be temporarily closed. However, the fighter still had to continue to replenish fuel bombs and replace new pilots, and the ground crew members who started to be busy were very tired at this time. However, due to the favorable overall situation, they were all very interested. In addition to the unfortunate companions who died or disappeared, the atmosphere was very optimistic. The pilots were also very happy, especially the elderly pilots who fought for the first time, who ate and danced while depicting the scene of Pearl Harbor to others. "It was really a sea of ​​fire..."

8:39, the front-line radar sent a notice that some enemy planes were approaching, and the number was estimated to be between 40-50. Chiaki Matsuda knew that this was not the second attack wave of returning, so he ordered 32 direct cover planes to intercept. His estimate was correct. This was the land aviation stationed on the island of Hawaii. After receiving the counterattack order, he did not join in the fun on Oahu Island, and went directly to trouble the Japanese fleet. Now the support fleet will be more than 650 kilometers away from Pearl Harbor, and even further away from the southernmost Hawaii Island, but this group of US troops still came to the door.

Six minutes later, the group of aircraft had just exchanged fire. The frontier radar reported that some enemy planes were approaching from the west. The number was estimated to be more than 60 attack groups that took off from Kauai Island in northwest Oahu. They did not suffer any losses in the Japanese attack and sent out all the planes they could send out. However, their luck was not as good as the Hawaii Island defenders. Although they were dispatched earlier, they searched for a long time before they found the direction of the Japanese fleet. Chiaki Matsuda distributed 40 direct-cover aircraft to intercept.

After 8:55, the second attack wave had not yet entered the radar control screen of our side. It was reported that 40-50 enemy attack groups came. Matsuda Chiaki, who was sweating, sent 32 fighters out. Now there are only 20 left in the remaining direct cover aircraft. Fortunately, Hori Teki canceled the third attack wave attack, otherwise he would not be able to gather 124 air defense fighters, and it would be more difficult to deal with air strikes now.

After 9 o'clock, no US attack planes appeared in the air. Until Ekara Takahara, who returned at 9:17, appeared in the distance. Matsuda Chiaki finally let go of his heart, because the first intercepting air battle had already been decided, and the Japanese army defeated the US military with a record of 9:37. Then, under the command of the Rendian, the airborne fighter immediately scattered and joined the other two battle groups to help their fighters quickly overwhelm the opponent.

The first round of attacks suffered a huge loss. They were shot down 107 aircraft under the interception of nearly equal Japanese troops, but only 19 Japanese troops were shot down. The results of the air were pitiful and the effectiveness of the sea attack was not significant. They only sank the Japanese destroyers Shiraishi, Chuxue (Blossey-class), Zhongchuang auxiliary aircraft carrier Shanying, and Shanying lost their take-off and landing capabilities, but they could still operate, and their speed dropped to 11 knots.

But the results of US pilots reported:

Sink 1 aircraft carrier, 2 cruisers, and 3 destroyers;

Injure 1-2 aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers each;

There are 4-5 warships that are not sure about sinking or injuring.

The results of the battle were expanded several times in an instant.

The situation of the Japanese fleet reported was even more scary:

It was discovered that 28-32 Japanese aircraft carriers of various models (actually, all warships that look like aircraft carriers were counted in total, only 19);

4-5 battleships (actually 0) The US military lost all heavy cruisers in the previous battle, so in the eyes of inexperienced novices, heavy cruisers and battleships cannot be separated. They look like battleships a little bigger:

There are more than 20 cruisers of each type (there are 9 actual light and heavy cruisers);

There are more than 60 destroyers (actually 32); in addition, there are more than 30 S-boats imported from Germany in the Japanese fleet (all of which are treated as destroyers for the US military).

Someone cleverly added a message that the huge Japanese fleet covered the entire sea 700 kilometers north of Hawaii!

There were too many mistakes in the Japanese fighter jets reported in the air intercepting, and there were about 300 aircraft (actually 124 aircraft). What was even more madly is that since the first wave of US counterattack was sent by three independent teams, the situations reported to each other were in conflict with each other, and even the specific location of the Japanese fleet was wrong, some said more than 500 kilometers, some said more than 600 kilometers, and some said more than 700 kilometers. Finally, the direction was correct, and they all said that they were in the north and were "escape".

After receiving such a conflicting and bizarre telegram, Ingram and Doolittle were also helpless. The two knew the Japanese faction and knew that the Japanese army would never have another 4-5 battleships, the Kakuda Fleet and the Tsukahara Fleet were all very clear. Everyone also knew that the Japanese army had sunk in Panama, including Muro and other two ships. There were 3 Yamato-class, 1 Nagamon-class, and 2 Kwang-class Japanese fleets outside. If there were 4-5 battleships not appearing, it would be an insult to the IQ of the two.
Chapter completed!