With a "sharp" sound, a snow-white leaflet was first torn into pieces by Doolittle, and then it was violently kneaded into a ball, from that rough)

"I can't believe that we have such a shameless person!"

"Being angry is not a solution, you have to find a way out to solve the problem." After Admiral Ingram left Pearl Harbor to Washington, and Halsey and other naval generals led their fleets to be destroyed, the highest general of the Hawaiian defender became Lieutenant General Harrison. He sighed, "From the beginning, I felt that there were tricky things here, but I didn't expect that there would be so many, so big, and the more important reason is that the crowd involved is very tricky."

"No, the most important thing is that he was captured by the Japanese and confessed, which is really embarrassing!" Doolittle said angrily, "Now that the flyers are spread, the news is spreading everywhere, and there are many discussions on the island, everyone is in danger, the morale of the officers and soldiers has plummeted and they have no fighting spirit. How can I fight?"

"I can only do my best. Anyway, I am the same as you, and I will not consider surrendering." Harrison sighed, "At least they did not contact Japan for surrender privately."

"Dare they?" Dulite glared, "I beat them with Thomson into hornet's nests one by one!"

Then there was an embarrassing silence.

"The Japanese proposed a method of using supplies to exchange civilians in the leaflet. What do you think?"

"No! Gasoline, equipment, ammunition, and medicine are not something we urgently need? It was sent secretly by the Navy at the risk of its life and cannot be handed over to the Japanese!" Dulite said, "Although I am not satisfied with the Navy in many aspects, at least I cannot blame the naval officers and soldiers who are engaged in transportation at the risk of great danger now. Could it be that the lives of the rich men and bureaucrats in Hawaii are life, and their lives are not life?"

At present, the most effective supply of submarines is the smuggling of submarines. Although there are examples of being sunk, the overall efficiency is still high. Each transportation can bring at least 5,000 tons of supplies, and at the same time, it can take away a group of wounded people when retreating. The only problem is that it takes about 20 days for a trip to come for a trip, which is equivalent to an average of 250 tons of supplies per day. This is only a small loss for the defenders of the two islands, which consume more than 1,500 tons of supplies every day. Moreover, this is only the consumption in the current maintenance stage. Once the Japanese army lands on a large scale, the consumption will increase exponentially.

As for Los Angeles Express and San Francisco Express, due to low efficiency, high cost and large losses, the Navy has basically given up and vigorously mobilized and modified the small Shark-class submarine. More than 30 ships have been initially gathered on the West Coast, preparing to further increase the frequency of transportation and supply to once every 10 days. The Japanese army knew that the US military was secretly transporting submarines, but thought it was only a chance transportation of 3 or 4 ships at most, but they did not expect that the opponent was so large.

It is precisely because the scale of transportation is about to expand that the defenders have the courage and determination to stick to it. But the people did not know this news. What they saw was strict control and quantitative compression day by day, and what they saw was that their side was isolated and their opponents came to bomb and harass them day by day.

The defenders of the two islands of Hawaii still have more than 170 aircraft. Although more than 50 aircraft and more accessories have been supplied through submarine transportation, the losses were also astonishing some time ago, so the overall scale has not increased but decreased.

Japan and the United States launched a cruel tug-of-war and war of attrition on the front line of Hawaii. The Japanese transportation line was about twice the distance from the US military. At the same time, it was very difficult to maintain a giant like the main force of the joint fleet. The advantage was that it obtained tankers and supplies from Europe.

The capacity level has been improved; the US military's supply line is shorter and the two islands of Hawaii still have inventory. The disadvantage is that the Japanese army blockade and can only be transported by submarines, such as the most uneconomical method.

If the Japanese army did not block the island of Hawaii, even if the US military did not have a fleet and only used fleets to transport it, the Japanese army would still lose. Now both sides are barely in a draw, and both sides are trying their best to win time: the US military needs to buy time for its navy expansion and the overall strategic situation reversed; the Japanese army needs to hoard more materials for transportation, consolidate the occupied island defense system, and win time for capturing other islands still occupied by the US military in the Central Pacific.

Tsukahara deployed Nishimura to do this, with the purpose of disintegrating, destroying the resistance of the Hawaiian defenders, weakening their ability to resist, and reducing their losses. If you ignore the losses and push them over directly after attacking Molokai and Maui, why do you need to siege and wait?

Although the Hawaiian defenders refused to use military supplies to exchange civilian freedoms due to the tough statements of Doolittle and Harrison, there were also unwilling wealthy businessmen who proposed to trade in other ways, gold, silver, jewelry, civilian mid-to-high-end cars, etc. This is the army that Doolittle and Harrison cannot refuse, and cannot protect civilians. Is it not even allowed for civilians to save themselves?

So a black economic chain appeared in Hawaii. Some wealthy Hawaiian civilians carried cars, motorcycles, radios, phonographs, gold, silver, jewelry, watches, US dollars, etc. to exchange freedom with the Japanese army. There are many things that are not urgently needed by Japan, especially US dollar cash. Except for being useful in the black market in Shanghai, it is useless to the joint fleet. However, in order to differentiate the Hawaiian people, Tsukahara agreed to accept it and determined the "free" ransom through bargaining: adult men and women 4,000 US dollars per person, children halved, just ask whether the money is right, no matter what the identity of the redeemed person is.

The number of US$4,000 is not low. If real estate, shares and other things that cannot be cashed out are eliminated, it is even more difficult to get this money. The rich can also make up for it through hard currency such as cars, motorcycles, gold, silver, etc. The middle class can only sell real estate and other securities at a low price. The cash, gold, and silver in Hawaiian banks were quickly run out and no one dared not to let it go.

In the end, the economic situation is completely distorted: it is difficult to find a dollar cash. If it is just a digital deposit in a bank, it usually takes 30% or even 20% off to be cashed out. Civilians who cannot raise $4,000 will trade their cash and physical goods to people who urgently need cash to leave, and exchange them with three or even four times digital deposits in their bank.

Some people even smelled valuable "business opportunities" from it, using physical goods, US dollars, and gold at extremely low prices to exchange for middle-class real estate (houses and real estate), deposits, shares, etc.

This surging underground black market completely destroyed Hawaii's normal economic order, so that Hawaii was hard to find a banknote, and a rare economic degradation spectacle appeared. Small-scale transactions fixed general equivalents became cigarettes and soaps. Then, economic transactions that transcendentally evolved slightly larger have cashless, completely replaced by bank promissory notes or deposit checks.

On January 12 alone, the United Fleet received more than 500,000 US dollars worth of supplies and cash, and then let more than 1,400 people go away. On January 14, the United Fleet received more than 1 million supplies and cash, and once again let go of nearly 3,000 people, Tsukahara's wings gently flapped, which turned into an absolute Hawaii disaster, but it was still impossible to say anything.

Some people from the government and banking circles rushed to the headquarters, hoping that Doolittle and Harrison could get the West Coast to transport some dollar cash and gold and silver. The two officers distraughtly rejected the proposal: the entire Hawaiian crowd is now completely broken, the rich squeezing their heads and escape, while the poor scrubbed their eyes and watched coldly. As the Japanese army did not ask about their identity, there were even several wealthy officers and soldiers trying to sharpen their heads and squeeze into the ranks of "delivery ransom and obtain freedom."

On the Yamato, Tsukahara shook his head at Kusato Ryunosuke and said, "Through this kind of transaction, I finally met the Americans. I found that my understanding of them before was too superficial. When the Germans used Jews to collect materials and ransoms, I thought it was a fantasy, but I didn't expect that the living reality would appear here."

"How many Jews did Germany let go based on this?"

"The real amount is not clear, but the chief is estimated to be less than 300,000. It is said that in order to help the poor Jews trade ransoms, American Jewish bankers also specially launched personal loans to work as a coolie to return them after arriving in the United States."

"This is really this is really." Kusato Ryunosuke had nothing to say, and finally he reluctantly chose a word to describe it, "it was eye-opening."

Tsukahara told his subordinates: "Tele to the chief, and then send these things to Shanghai for sale, and also add funds to the navy."

"Sir, Hawaii has sent someone again, indicating that he wants to trade again the day after tomorrow. Then he asked the civil shipyard if the equipment in the factory can be offset?"

Kuroku Ryusuke laughed: "Trade is OK, but once the equipment is not built into Hawaii, it is not all ours? But other materials allow them to think about it. What kind of clothing, fabric, sugar, glass, cables, hardware, machinery, washing and other civil products can also be traded, and the price is determined by us!"

Tsukahara showed a glorious look. This level of robbery is much more voluntary than the Army going door to door to loot "Gao Ming" and "civilized" by Americans.

At the end of January 1945, during the blockade of the Hawaiian Islands, many new American goods were newly arrived in Shanghai, with low prices, and many of them were shipped by warships, and were quickly robbed.

As resources are constantly being sent, Hawaii civilians are constantly leaving the island, and the morale of the defenders is falling down like wild horses.
Chapter completed!