During World War II, As commander of the Japanese Navy's fleet, Minamimoto Tadaichi also maintained an opposing view of the japanese Navy's supreme commander, Isoroku Yamamoto, in attacking Pearl Harbor in the United States. However, in the end, due to the difficulty of disobeying the military orders, he decided to lead his troops to the Pacific. Nan yun Zhongyi this person is actually very not simple, I think at the beginning, he started as a battleship trainee officer, step by step to the later battleship captain, fleet commander. Therefore, there has always been a special feeling for the cannon and the giant ship Nanyun Zhongyi.
The plan formulated by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to attack Pearl Harbor, the base of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, was approved by the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, and at the same time decided to implement the strategic plan of the "Southward Expansion Plan", and the mastermind of the September 18 Incident, Ishihara Guan'er (Itagaki Seishiro, Kenji Doihara, who was hanged as a Japanese Class A war criminal), objected and was forced to resign, and Vice Admiral Tadaichi Minamiun was also opposed, but was still appointed commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, although Yamamoto Wasoroku was a strategic decision-maker. But the performance of Nanyun Junichi, as a front-line commander, directly affected the victory or defeat of this battle. The Japanese Combined Fleet was the largest integrated combat fleet in the world at the time, with more than a dozen aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and submarines.
Nanyun Zhongyi can be said to be an outsider for aircraft carrier combat and aviation combat, he is an expert in battleship warfare and mine warfare, he has a special love for the traditional thinking of artillery warships, and he is also a very good navigator, just when everyone has a headache about how to conceal the voyage of more than 3,000 nautical miles, Nanyun Zhongyi said; please rest assured that as long as you can fly up, throw bombs, and blow up American warships, I am responsible for bringing you safely to the designated position.
In the whole process of the attack on Pearl Harbor, even every detail was very mysterious, not missing a little wind, not only the US Military Department did not know, but even many high-level figures in Japan did not know. In order not to let the US intelligence services know the movements of the combined fleet, before November 22, 1941, the Japanese combined fleet was secretly assembled in Danguan Bay in Hokkaido, where only a few fishermen lived, and Shanguan Bay was often shrouded in thick fog, very remote, almost unnoticed by the outside world.
Not only the fishermen on the island, but also the news was tightly sealed inside the combined fleet, and only a few senior commanders knew the purpose and task of the assembly, and Nanyun Zhongyi did not know the specific departure time. On November 23, senior commanders of the Combined Fleet held a military meeting aboard the flagship USS Akagi to discuss how such a large Combined Fleet could secretly reach the designated attack position and then carry out a surprise attack to annihilate the U.S. Pacific Fleet in one fell swoop. At the meeting, Nan Yun Zhongyi made meticulous research and deployment.
On November 26, 1941, the Japanese Combined Fleet, consisting of six aircraft carriers as the main warships, with a huge escort fleet of more than thirty frigates, left Single Crown Bay under the command of Vice Admiral Tadaichi Minamiun and headed for Pearl Harbor, the target of attack. En route the fleet remained utterly silent. Winding east along the predetermined northern route to avoid American patrol aircraft and merchant ships, the voyage went unexpectedly smoothly, and for days the clouds were thick, as if a natural curtain had obscured the movements of the combined fleet, and there were no great waves on the sea that were often set off in winter.
In order to paralyze the US government, the Japan-US negotiations in Washington are still being carried out in a pretentious manner, and the Japanese army has also sent a large number of warships and aircraft to operate on the Japanese mainland, and simulated the formation of aircraft carriers and frequent radio communications, giving the United States the illusion that "the main fleet of the Japanese Navy is still operating on the mainland." The US military in Pearl Harbor, on the other hand, was careless, taking weekends off as usual, with balls and bars open normally, and there was a peaceful scene in Hong Kong.
On December 2, 1941, as the Combined Fleet was crossing the East-West International Date Line and entering the West Longitude Sea north of Midway, Yamamoto 56 used a new code to issue a secret order to the commander of the Combined Fleet, Tadaochi Minamimo: "Climb the New Peak 1208." That is, according to the original plan of December 8 (December 7, Hawaii time) to launch the attack, Nanyun Zhongyi immediately ordered the captains to turn off the lights, and issued the battle plan for the sneak attack on the US Pacific Fleet to all officers and men, requiring all officers and men to be ready for battle at any time.