the world is at stake

As for the armor, although it has not been tested, even the ignorant Rockefeller feels that it is very thick.After the chief teacher's introduction, he winked at Zhou Qingfeng vigorously.

Zhou Qingfeng smiled at Rockefeller Jr.: "This chariot is very good, but it is too expensive. But we have recently found a customer.

The British deployed a large army in Canada and urgently needed tanks.Although the performance of the British tanks is also good, their military factories have limited production capacity, so they had to place an order for [-] vehicles from us.

Military factories in Baotou and other places are producing at full speed to meet the needs of the British army.After mass production, the overall cost will definitely be reduced, which is also conducive to the further promotion of related technologies. "

Little Rockefeller finally changed his color a bit, "Will the British army in Canada use this kind of equipment?"

"Yes, in fact, we have delivered small batches for the British army to form and train heavy tank battalions. But I think the US military also has similar or even better equipment."

"No." Rockefeller Jr. shook his head in a trance, "If you're referring to the design of the Detroit Arsenal three years ago, it can only be said that you have taken the lead in technology this time."

Zhou Qingfeng, the chief division officer, and the officers of the National Defense Forces present were all baffled.

"The Detroit Armory does have a research and development plan to provide the US military with advanced combat vehicles, but the plan they came up with three years ago was too radical, and only a wooden model was displayed to the public, hoping to obtain funding from Congress.

However, after President Wilson came to power, he believed that the possibility of the United States being invaded was very low, and there was no need to spend a lot of money on research and development of heavy equipment, so he cut off a large amount of military budget.

Now that President Marcos is in power again, although he has restarted many armament plans this year, the Detroit arsenal located beside the Great Lakes had to be relocated to avoid being destroyed by the war, which disrupted all armament plans. "

Little Rockefeller spread his hands and said with a wry smile: "The military government's sudden military expansion has resulted in a shortage of light weapons for the U.S. military, and there is no similar research and development plan for the time being. At present, the U.S. military has no equipment that can compete with your 'Tiger' tank."

Ah...everyone present counts as one, and everyone was stunned.

Everyone turned to look at the [-]-ton 'Tiger' and thought to themselves: "Then what have we worked so hard for in the past three years? This thing should not be the strongest tank on Earth right now?"

If this is the case, the Yankees will suffer a lot.

The atmosphere at the scene was inexplicably awkward, and the corners of the mouths of several army officers could not help but turn up. The pressure of many years was suddenly relieved, and the mood was immediately relieved.Even the chariot commander felt more and more that his "tiger style" was very pleasing to the eye, and it was no longer a "black hole of military expenditure".

Rockefeller Jr. didn't have much feeling for the 'Tiger Style'. He came to visit to meet with Chinese high-level officials.After finishing the chariot display, he sought to talk to Zhou Qingfeng alone.

"Mr. Zhou, my father sent me a telegram yesterday. He wanted to remind his Chinese friends that the Marco Shih military government is likely to use the navy to launch a sneak attack on China in the near future."

The message that made little Rockefeller sleepless was handed to Zhou Qingfeng.The old Rockefeller made a major decision to ask his son to provide China with the latest movements of the US military.

"The aircraft carrier 'Enterprise', not yet in service, left the Newport News Shipyard with its large hangars and decks filled with the latest carrier-based fighters and attack aircraft, becoming an aircraft carrier to support the front line.

The U.S. military has also modified a number of twin-engine 'b-10' bombers to enable them to take off and land on aircraft carriers.This light bomber can hold a ton of bombs to reach a combat radius of [-] kilometers.

In addition, according to the internal information of the consortium, these carrier-based bombers will use napalm bombs and radio-guided bombs, posing a great threat to combat. "

Zhou Qingfeng briefly read the message, and extended his hand to express his gratitude to Rockefeller Jr., "Thank you very much for your efforts for world peace, and we will never forget the help of our friends.

Forgive me for leaving immediately. This information needs to be handed over to professional analysts for further research.Also please give my regards to your father, when the dictator is thrown out, there will be peace in America. "

Little Rockefeller nodded in understanding, and also had no intention of continuing the conversation.When he returned to the provincial party committee guest house in the city, he didn't know what to do for a while, and sat in a daze beside the big bed in the simple room, feeling pain and hesitation in his heart.

The American consortium has abandoned the United States, and half of the war has been lost.

Chapter 85

February 1919, 9, Tokyo, Japan.

At ten o'clock in the morning, harsh air defense sirens sounded in every corner of the entire metropolitan area.

People on the street kept looking up. Men, women, old and children looked at the alarms hanging on buildings or utility poles. After a few seconds, they put down their work and left from shops, schools, hospitals, etc., and lined up in an orderly manner to go to the nearest air defense facility. .

Firefighters in the city showed up on the streets in Dididudut fire trucks.The police ran out of the police station to maintain order in the flow of people.Some militiamen climbed to the top of the building to watch for possible disasters in the city.

Special fire protection belts have been set up in some streets, and many old wooden buildings have been demolished for this purpose.The pumping station used for firefighting has been checked dozens of times to ensure water pressure and water supply.

But half an hour later, the alarm was lifted.

Uniformed police whistled to guide people away from the air defense installations and restore normal order in the city.

The driver returned to the bus, and the passengers were still in their original positions.The goods in the store remained the same, and the salesperson continued to sell to customers.The streets are still bustling with traffic.

This was an air defense exercise, and Miura Neko sat in the bulletproof car and quietly observed the whole process of the exercise from a corner of the street.

When everything seemed to be in order, Your Excellency the Prime Minister expressed his gratitude to Kajia, the Chinese ambassador to Japan who was in the same car, and said in a deep voice, "I'm surprised that you will notify us in advance."

"Why the surprise?" Katya smiled, "The Standing Committee of the Imperial Capital discussed that China and Japan will be one family in the future. Tokyo is currently the most important industrial city in East Asia, accounting for half of Japan's industrial production capacity, and it is impossible to let the United States destroy it.

But it is also possible to drop a few bombs from the United States in Tokyo.This helped to forge a blood-curd friendship between the two countries in preparation for the imminent Pacific War. "

"I understand." Miura nodded heavily, and then sighed: "After the victory of the war, the establishment of the Dongying Autonomous Region will be logical, right?"

Katya smiled again and nodded slightly.

Miura took a deep breath for this, not knowing whether to lament or hope.For others, the war is beginning.For him, the war is over.

At the same time, at the Iwo Jima Air Force Base, a thousand kilometers south of Tokyo, a long-range warning radar was erected on Mount Suribachi in the south of the island, and the huge antenna was rotating back and forth.

This island is far away from the mainland and hangs alone overseas. It is [-] kilometers away from Guam in the south and [-] kilometers away from Wake Island in the east.

The island has two brigades of fighter jets and long-range patrol aircraft, which are responsible for monitoring the vast sea and air within a range of six to seven hundred kilometers. It is an important outpost of China in the Pacific Ocean.

When the American citizens were still ignorant, the navy and air force on Iwo Jima faced sudden and intensive investigation activities by the US military.Every day, U.S. seaplanes and warships approached, trying to break into the sky above the island for aerial photography.

This bold provocation is completely undisguised, and it also indicates that war is imminent.

All the officers and soldiers on the island can do is to repair fortifications desperately, digging three feet to find a bunker for themselves.In particular, Mount Suribachi, which is only 160 meters above sea level in the south, is almost hollowed out.

Because once the war starts, the island is completely isolated and helpless except for sending an alarm to the rear.The more than 5000 officers and soldiers on the island can only rely on their own hard resistance.

But fortunately, Admiral Fred Fletcher, commander of the US Pacific Fleet, did not intend to attack the small Iwo Jima first.

On the 25th, he ordered in Hawaii that the main force of the fleet including the "Lexington" set off from Pearl Harbor, bypassed Iwo Jima, and raided Tokyo from the east, attracting the Sino-Japanese combined fleet to Wake Island for annihilation.

But when the fleet set off, Admiral Fletcher was extremely disturbed.

The U.S. military's intelligence work on China is so poor that it has never been able to accurately know the specific locations of the four or even five aircraft carriers of the Sino-Japanese Joint Fleet.

This battle is fought like a blind man riding a blind horse, facing the abyss at midnight.If it weren't for the greater threat facing North America, the U.S. Navy would never leave Hawaii.

But in fact, the number of aircraft carriers China has in the Pacific is by no means just four or five.

As early as the end of August, the "soaked warship" purchased from Europe took advantage of the summer navigation period of the Arctic Ocean to sail more than 1 kilometers, quickly crossed the Bering Strait and the Aleutian Islands, and entered the Sea of ​​Okhotsk east of Sakhalin Island .

The fleet includes the aircraft carrier 'Zeppelin' from Germany, the aircraft carrier 'Hermes' from the UK, and a dozen other large warships.

Due to the lack of manpower in the Chinese navy, the commander of this fleet was the German Vice Admiral Earl Spee who volunteered to join.Although the old man was not good at commanding the aircraft carrier, he was still able to command the gunboat.

When the US Pacific Fleet left Pearl Harbor, the Spey Fleet also left Sakhalin.Its goal is neither to defend Tokyo, nor to intercept the opponent halfway, but to...

"It's Hawaii."

Inside the bridge of the "Mongolia" aircraft carrier, Rear Admiral Luo Bohai, commander of the South China Sea Fleet and commander of the China-Japan Joint Fleet, switched back and forth between the chart and the sea outside the porthole.

The five aircraft carriers of the Combined Fleet were originally scattered throughout Southeast Asia to support the landing and security operations of the Army and Marine Corps.But in early September, the fleet assembled in the Celebes Sea south of the Philippines.

'Fengxiang', 'Tianxiang', 'Wufeng', 'Xianghe', and 'Mongolia', the five aircraft carriers were divided into two task forces, and they entered the Western Pacific Ocean at a high speed of 25 knots with attached warships of millions of tons .

Guam, Wake Island, and Midway Island along the way are not the targets of the United Fleet. Only Hawaii, which is nearly [-] kilometers away, is where they want to go.

This is really the intention of the United States to try to stealthily attack is too obvious, even the blind can detect Marco Shi's desperate attempt.The suddenness of its campaign is completely lost.

According to the plan of the General Staff of the Ministry of National Defense, as long as the US Pacific Fleet leaves Hong Kong, the Sino-Japanese Joint Fleet and the Spey Fleet will attack Hawaii from the south to the north.

Using seven aircraft carriers, seventeen battleships and battle cruisers, the main force of more than 70 heavy cruisers, light cruisers and destroyers will unscrupulously destroy the most important strategic pillar of the United States in the Pacific.

Compared with the brainless actions of the US fleet, China's intelligence work can be said to be very effective.The day after the main force of the enemy fleet left Hong Kong, China knew that the enemy was coming in full force.

To this end, the patrol aircraft on Iwo Jima expanded the scope of detection.Destroyers from the Ogasawara Islands moved in the direction of Wake Island.A large number of fishing boats swarmed out and spread to the sea area thousands of kilometers east of Tokyo.

Using the relay communication between the fishing boat radio stations, as long as the enemy appears, it will definitely be discovered.It is easy for Americans to come, but it is difficult to leave - both sides want to steal each other's home, it depends on who is more ruthless.

The United Fleet has entered radio silence since its assembly, only receiving but not sending.

Rear Admiral Luo Bohai didn't know where the enemy fleet was, nor did he know where Earl Spey was cooperating with him.He only counted the time silently, dispatched reconnaissance planes to patrol the surrounding area every day, and arranged avant-garde ships to protect his own safety.

With a speed of 1000 knots, the fleet can sail [-] to [-] kilometers in one day and night.

It took more than six days for the fleet led by Rear Admiral Luo Bohai to arrive [-] kilometers south of Hawaii in the early morning of October [-].At this moment, he went deep into the enemy's territory, relying on the cover of the night.

But as soon as the sun breaks, the US military patrol planes taking off from Oahu will definitely spot this huge fleet.In fact, there are also U.S. military seaplanes in the dark, but the range that the flares can light up is too small, and the field of vision is far worse than during the day.

The five aircraft carriers are equipped with more than 450 fighter planes. The hangars are already brightly lit, the air crew is busy with maintenance, and the pilots are having breakfast.

Martha was sitting on a bomb-loading machine, surrounded by several squadrons of HNA elites.She didn't even reach half of her 'Thousand Plane Crash' goal, and this time she planned to make some achievements on the Yankees.

At this moment, Washington just woke up in the morning light.

The Chinese ambassador to the United States received a telegram from China, the content of which was only one line, open the 'open No. [-] safe with the password of *****, read the top-secret text, and hand it over to the US Secretary of State at [-]:[-] in the morning '.

The ambassador immediately stopped breathing.

Safe No. [-] was delivered to the embassy through diplomatic channels half a month ago.Without a password, it will self-destruct if opened without authorization.When this thing was delivered, the ambassador realized something.

At the same time, the U.S. ambassador to Japan in Tokyo also received a similar order, requiring a top-secret document to be sent to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs within the specified time.

Can't advance, can't postpone.

But because of the time difference between Hawaii and Tokyo, the Chinese ambassador will send the document to the US Secretary of State five hours in advance.When he opened the safe, he saw the imaginary text without any surprise, and immediately ordered to the military attache of the embassy with a calm face:

"Prepare the car. I want to see the US Secretary of State Melo at ten thirty. In addition, destroy all the confidential documents of the embassy immediately after I go out."

Hawaii time, at [-]:[-] in the morning, the sky was already slightly bright.

The Sino-Japanese joint fleet maneuvered to a distance of [-] kilometers southwest of Oahu.

The takeoff and landing planes have sent the first attack wave to the deck, the five aircraft carriers accelerated against the wind, and 150 sorties of fighter and attack planes began to take off.They will arrive over Pearl Harbor in an hour and a half.

At the same time, the Spey Fleet from the north also arrived at the attack position on time, and sixty fighter planes took off from the 'Zeppelin' and 'Hermes' one after another.

At the same time, the main force of the US Pacific Fleet is still [-] kilometers away from Tokyo.

The light bombers 'B-10' on board the four carriers are ready to attack.The night also gave them good cover, and the Japanese fishing boats and destroyers scattered on the sea had to wait for dawn to find them.

Four or 10 minutes later, the fighter planes of the two air battle groups of the Chinese Navy, the North and the South, arrived 150 kilometers away from Oahu almost at the same time.The US military radar on the island detected the incoming aircraft fleet in advance, and the entire island sounded the alarm.

Admiral Fletcher, the commander of the US Pacific Fleet in Hawaii, seemed to wake up from a nightmare. He was shocked to learn that dense bright spots appeared on the radar screen, and that an unknown aircraft group was approaching Pearl Harbor.

"Unknown fleet?!" The US military in the military port suddenly felt cold, who could be here at this time?They knew why their main force had gone, but they didn't expect that the enemy they wanted to destroy would come to kill them.

Washington time, ten thirty in the morning.

The Chinese ambassador to the United States formally handed over the declaration of war to the US Secretary of State Melo-in view of your country's many crimes against humanity, China will liquidate your country.

Behind the Chinese ambassadors, the British, German and French ambassadors lined up, all holding declarations of war in their hands.The whole world unite, revenge for revenge, revenge for grievances.

Secretary of State Melo cursed furiously, "You dare to launch a war against the United States, you will regret it, and you will be destroyed."

Chapter 86 Pearl Harbor Is Under My Wing

When Martha boarded her 'Sea J-3' fighter plane, the deck crew was taking the time to use paint to write 'blessings' under the wings of the attacking fighter plane.

For example, write "quick as the wind, aggressive like fire", and "immobile like a mountain, moving like a thunder", "a sharp sword in the sky, a battle for the front", "the sun rises in the east, and I am the only one who is invincible".

As for the rockets and guided bombs mounted on the wings, they were covered with graffiti early on.

Someone wrote their name, someone wrote 'Love from ***'.Some people even wrote their contact information, expressing that they want to find a foreign girl with big breasts and big ass.

The 3-horsepower piston engine provided by the British has excellent performance, endowing the 'Haijian-[-]' with high speed, high agility and long range, making this fighter with two [-]mm cannons extremely deadly.

At [-]:[-], the sun first appeared on the sea.

The flight command post of the 'Fengxiang' island issued a take-off order.The aircraft carrier accelerated against the wind, and the propellers hummed and turned.The z flag on the mast was shaking and fluttering in the wind.

The engine of 'Hai J-3' was working at full capacity, and the aircrew waved the blue take-off signal light.Martha released the wheel brakes, and the fully armed body suddenly accelerated, crossed the flight deck, and rushed into the sea and air.

The five aircraft carriers released the first attack wave at a rate of two per minute, and the fighter planes that took off formed into formation under the orders of commanders at all levels, and flew to Pearl Harbor in the north.

The formation first flies at an altitude of 3000 meters, and will continue to descend after approaching Pearl Harbor, using the curvature of the earth to avoid radar detection on Oahu Island.

Martha is the commander-in-chief of the attack wave. She stabilized the flight speed at 240 kilometers per hour, determined the approximate direction with the compass, and arrived at the sky above the target in an hour and a half.

At six o'clock, the radio location information was sent on time from Oahu.This is a small radio set up by intelligence personnel somewhere on the island, constantly repeating weather information.

"The weather is fine, the mountains on the island are cloudy, and the cloud height is 1000 to [-] meters. The visibility on the whole island is good, and the wind is northerly, and the wind speed is [-] knots."

Martha determined the flight direction by adjusting the positioning receiving antenna in the cabin, and notified the situation to all personnel on the attack wave.

Before the attack wave was dispatched, several cruisers had released their own seaplanes for reconnaissance.

Seaplanes are slow and have little combat capability.The pilots who fly them are true warriors, whose task is to determine the situation on the island and avoid unexpected accidents at great risk.

It is a good thing that there is no news from the seaplane now.No news is the best news.

Also at [-] a.m., the Manoa radar station south of Oahu detected an anomaly.

Its radar antenna was erected on a thousand-meter-high mountain, overlooking the surrounding sea, and it found radar waves reflected from the southern sea from a distance.

Facing an inexplicable bright spot on the radar screen, the officer at the Manoa radar station was a little confused.He couldn't figure out what target would come from the sea to the south, and it was a lonely one.

And a hundred kilometers away to the south, a seaplane serving as a reconnaissance mission activated the airborne electronic countermeasure equipment to release electromagnetic interference against the radar signals it received.