Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Chapter 706: Attack on Pearl Harbor (1)

"150mm anti-aircraft gun? Effective shooting up to 16,000 meters?"

Information that the United States had successfully developed a 150mm anti-aircraft gun was quickly placed on Yannick's desk.

"It seems that Americans are really being pushed into a hurry."

As the saying goes, there is no power without pressure. It is quite remarkable that a 150mm anti-aircraft gun can be developed in such a short period of time. After all, it is easy to hit a cannonball to the ground 10,000 meters away, but to hit a cannonball straight into the air more than 10,000 meters high, the development difficulty is not even the slightest difference.

However, Yannick was not too worried. Developing it was one thing, but being able to mass-produce it was another.

Just like the German King Tiger tank in World War II, it had a complex structure and numerous manufacturing processes. Although its performance was quite outstanding, in the end, only less than 500 tanks were built, which could not change the fate of defeat at all.

He does not believe that the United States can deploy a large number of such 150mm anti-aircraft guns in every city. It is already very good to be able to protect the capital and several industrial cities.

And they were able to blackmail the Americans several times before these anti-aircraft guns were put into service in batches. The last time he looted treasures from museums across the United States, Germany built more than a dozen large museums. Yannick was proud for a while. Knowing that the United States was among the Eight-Nation Allied Forces in the original time and space made him feel like taking revenge. pleasure. "We definitely can't get the gold out, and there aren't many good things left in the museum. What should I order next time?"

At this time, Annie, who poured him tea, said jokingly. "Your Highness, why not let them move the Statue of Liberty?"

"Statue of Liberty?" Yannick couldn't help laughing. "It's a good idea, but I'm afraid the Americans won't agree." After all, the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of the United States. If it were even handed over, the American people might not agree. "And even if they are willing to give it, the Statue of Liberty is not worth that price." The main body of the French-made Statue of Liberty was less than 100,000 U.S. dollars, and even with inflation that has doubled over the years, it will not exceed 1 million U.S. dollars. , which is far worse than 3.6 billion US dollars.

After pondering for several days, Yannick didn't think of what to ask for, and finally decided to just bomb them.

In the early morning of that day, 100 ME-264 high-altitude bombers took off from the Greenland Air Force Base and flew to the United States.

On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, 1,000 kilometers away from the Hawaiian Islands, a German fleet's two aircraft carriers kept taking off A-1 attack aircraft.

Soon, 50 attack aircraft formed a huge fleet and flew to the Hawaiian Islands.

After struggling for a long time, Yannick decided to launch a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, but the target was not the warships in the port, but the huge oil depot with a reserve of 7.2 million tons (some say 4.5 million tons).

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in the original time and space was a resounding victory from a tactical point of view, but from an overall strategic point of view, it was an outright failure. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, many people had a question: Why didn't the then commander Chuichi Nagumo bomb the important resource oil depot of the US military? After all, if all the oil depots are blown up, the U.S. Navy will definitely lose its combat effectiveness due to fuel problems in a short period of time, thus occupying a strategic advantage, which is of far-reaching significance.

At that time, the Japanese army launched two waves of attacks. Among them, the first wave brought the greatest gains and the smallest losses, while the second wave also brought certain gains, but the price paid was not small. If we insist on launching a third wave of attacks, we may encounter counterattacks from U.S. land-based aircraft, and even attract American aircraft carriers that have disappeared. What Nagumo Chuichi was thinking about was not how to expand the results, but how to preserve his strength. Therefore, Nagumo Chuichi ordered a retreat in order to protect the combined fleet, especially the aircraft carrier, from being attacked by U.S. reinforcements.

More importantly, although the Japanese army brazenly launched a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, they actually did not intend to drag the United States into World War II. The essence of its sneak attack is to eliminate the main force of the US Navy and teach it a lesson. They knew very well that anti-war sentiment was very strong in the United States in the early days of World War II, and the United States had always played a role in making huge war profits. This gave the top leaders of the island country sufficient confidence. They take it for granted that as long as the United States sees the capabilities of our military, the United States will be able to surrender and relax sanctions on the island countries. And if it causes heavy losses to the US military, it is likely to be counterproductive. After all, the United States is not weak at all! However, what the senior leaders of the island country did not expect was that this wave of operations not only failed to make the US military surrender, but actually forced the US military to directly join the war!

The final reason is even more funny, because Chuichi Nagumo always believed that the oil tanks at Pearl Harbor at that time were all a guise. Although there was intelligence confirming that this was a US military oil depot, Chuichi Nagumo firmly did not believe it, because all Japanese oil depots were built in underground. Under such deep-rooted thoughts, Nagumo Chuichi has always been unwilling to waste resources on oil tanks.

Of course Yannick knew that those oil tanks were real oil depots, so the task of the German attack aircraft formation was to attack those oil depots and completely destroy them!

In this way, the Pearl Harbor attack, which was completely different from World War II in the original time and space, began.

After nearly two hours of flight, the formation finally approached Pearl Harbor.

In a radar station on the top of a mountain, a radar soldier sitting in front of the radar was dozing off. Although the German fleet had already entered the Pacific Ocean, neither the German fleet nor the aircraft had ever approached this place, let alone launched an attack. ; Therefore, their vigilance is much less vigilant than when the war first began.

The commander, who was lying on the simple bed next to him and snoring, was awakened by the roar coming from outside. He stretched out his legs and kicked the stool where the radar soldier was sitting without opening his eyes. "David, David, go out and see what's so noisy?"

David, the radar soldier who opened his eyes in a daze, saw that the radar in front of him had stopped operating at some point, and the display screen had lost its light. However, David was not too panicked. At this time, American radar was not advanced and glitches of one kind or another often occurred.

As the inventor of radar, Britain's radar was the most advanced in the early days of World War II in the original time and space. The United States relied on the sharing of information and technology between Britain and the United States, as well as its own abundant human, material and financial resources, to gradually catch up.

But now that Britain has surrendered early, the United States can only cross the river by feeling the stones when it comes to radar research, and its performance is far inferior to that of German radar.

After pressing the switch to turn the radar back on, David stood up and came to the door, opened the door and looked out. The morning sun happened to shine on his face, making it difficult to open his eyes. The roar from far to near became more and more deafening. David blocked the sunlight with his hands and looked in the direction of the sound. He saw densely packed planes flying over their heads.

"Aren't you allowed to sleep this early in the morning?" David stretched out and complained as he looked at the fleet of planes flying overhead.

Suddenly, he felt something was wrong. What was printed on the wings of these low-altitude planes was not the familiar blue circle and white star aircraft emblem, but a black iron cross! !

"Oh, buy it! It's a German plane! A German plane! Sir, it's a German plane!"

"What?!" The officer rolled out of bed, ran to the door, took a look, and hurried back to sound the alarm.

The shrill battle siren rang over Pearl Harbor.

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