If it was Kakuda, the Kakuda, who did not pay much attention to the life of the pilot, would immediately order the fleet to turn and escape after flying the attack group. However, after repeated education by Hori Teiki, he began to understand a truth that warships can be rebuilt. Now there are 6-7 Yunlong or Axial Classes piled on the platform of the country. All of them can be completed next year. In the future, warships will be started one after another. If it is not enough, they can buy them from Europe. It is said that Europe started construction of 9 ships in one go after the final draft of the axial Class drawings, which does not include the production of the British. If Britain starts construction, at least 14 axial Classes can be built a year. If the ships are not enough, it is just like Germany to buy them. Isn’t it the tanker this time relying on Europe?

But excellent pilots are not so easy to obtain, especially those who can fly to the night attack, are all elites cultivated and accumulated by the big waves. Otherwise, why did the Americans change the oil tanker? Isn’t it because they cannot afford to lose the crew? This time the attack was due to Hori Teiki’s reminder. Arima’s main text arranged the route to fly to Canada first and then fight south from Canada. The attack distance was over 75o kilometers, and when he came back, he had to fly at least 65o kilometers, which was 14o kilometers. In addition, the time of bombing was stuck above the Boeing factory area, it was already quite nervous to get stuck at a distance of 65o kilometers, and even worried that it might not be enough.

Therefore, Youma Zhengwen suggested that the warships simply stop in place and wait until the attack is successful. Guan Wei Zhongzuo was sure that the oil was enough to return to the airline before he started to retreat. Otherwise, if the aircraft's oil was insufficient, the fleet was ready to travel about 50 kilometers to respond. The only exception was the escort aircraft carrier Condor, because the ship was the slowest and only undertakes the fleet's air defense mission. At the same time, in order to avoid dragging the fleet down when running away, it was better to arrange for 50 kilometers to run 50 kilometers in advance.

After all the plans were made, the Kakuda fleet sent a telegram to inform Hori Teki and Tsukahara that the two airlines successfully attacked the Boeing factory!

The surprise attack was indeed very successful. Kakuda destroyed more than 70% of the buildings and equipment in the core area of ​​the Boeing production area with the losses of only 16 aircraft. At the same time, it also destroyed the 184 B-29s that had not been put into use shortly after they were produced. The value of this batch of aircraft alone was over 100 million US dollars. In addition, it also caused many casualties among the Boeing factory, the National Guard, the aircraft crew, etc., which were trampled on each other, and some were burned to death due to contamination of incendiary fluid, including more than 60 very important production line engineers. The only thing that made the Americans glad that the attack was born in the early morning, almost all the experts in the research department were resting and survived.

The losses of Boeing's production base are quite serious in Japan. If Mitsubishi encounters such a bombing, it is estimated that the entire base camp will be in trouble. But for a country like the United States, the effect is only average. The United States' strategic air strike on Germany was the same, as it seemed to be full of holes and ruins, but it was restored soon as it was normal. According to preliminary estimates, Boeing's destruction can achieve full recovery of production lines in just 6 weeks, but due to personnel and equipment, the recovery to full production capacity is about 12-14 weeks, which affects the overall production capacity of about 4 ooo.

After hearing that the loss was not too great, Arnold felt relieved. The production capacity of multiple aircraft in 4ooo can only be suppressed to other factories. Not long ago, the decision was made that multiple aircraft production lines coexisting with multiple models should be compressed and adjusted. This time, it was also an important opportunity.

But the attack was still like a heavy slap in the face of the Truman government. Even though Truman showed signs of giving up because he didn't care about the presidential election, Arnold still did not dare to neglect and ordered all available bombers to attack and asked Canada for reinforcements. He originally wanted to draw planes from the front line of Los Angeles and San Francisco to go north to carry out bombing missions, but his subordinates dissuaded him. They knocked on the Tsukahara fleet that was said to have arrived in the Mexican waters. Arnold immediately reacted: Yesterday, the Japanese army could raid Seattle through Canada. How could he know if the Japanese army would raid Los Angeles through Mexico tomorrow? Now all the planes are transferred to Seattle, what should the Japanese army do to attack the front line of Los Angeles tomorrow and the next day?

What's more, there is a transportation fleet in the waters of Los Angeles. This is the life-saving fleet in Hawaii not only has a lot of fuel, but also has a lot of HNA aircraft. If this fleet is taken down again, he probably can only learn from Turner and resign.

Therefore, he only drew the 6th flight in Seattle and Portland to attack, and at the same time reached out to the Canadians for assistance.

The 6 aviation staff made a basic accurate judgment. The Tsukahara fleet was indeed in the Mexican waters, but it was estimated that there was a little trouble. The Tsukahara fleet would only barely reach Los Angeles in three days, rather than what they thought it would be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

The Seattle 6 bomber group, which was busy preparing to take off, took off the first plane until 7:15, and it was officially released at 7:54. This was almost the time when the Japanese pilots flew over the fleet and prepared to land in line. The only wise thing about the Seattle 6 commander was that they did not send reconnaissance aircraft to search in one fell swoop, but directly sent the attack group out, divided into several waves to prepare for the attack while searching, and agreed that it would be best to find the Japanese fleet's fleet's aircraft group to report the location and wait for other aircraft clusters to assemble before investing in the attack. This gave the Japanese army time to breathe. The returning attack group could land calmly, replenish supplies, and then continue to go on.

The main text of Aima is very tightly stuck with distance and time. After the last few planes landed, the fuel tank was almost empty. If it dragged for a few minutes, it might fall into the sea. However, the pilots themselves were not worried. The later the landing, the more veterans were, and they were familiar with the plane as if they were their own bodies.

Kakuda ran to the deck to quit the pilots, and then cheered on the ground crew and sailors: "Let's see you next!"

The sky was bright and bright, the sun was rising high, the sea was covered with waves, and the Kakuda fleet flew at 27 kilograms, and the Seattle air raid group was chasing in the air. Truman's order to severely investigate and punish dereliction of duty has been issued. Even if it is a president who is about to retire, this order is not trivial.

It was not until 1o:27 that the U.S. bombers found the Kakuda fleet. The latter also noticed that there were not many first batch of U.S. aircraft to be launched into the attack, and the staff report also intercepted the U.S. telegram. He speculated that other formations of the other side were searching, so he boldly ordered the air defense fighter jets that had been directly covered by the fleet since the early morning to take the initiative to attack, "after defeating the enemy, landing quickly for supplies, and other aircraft will perform air defense missions."

32 do-412 immediately rushed towards nearly 50 US attack aircraft.

"In the early morning, the Boeing factory in Seattle was attacked. At present, Air 6 has severely damaged this fleet? General Arnold hoped that we would intercept, but Spruins expressed his disagreement?" At around 1 pm, Halsey, who led the T5O fleet to prepare to receive the transportation troops, received a telegram from Washington and was immediately confused: What did the Japanese go to attack Seattle for no reason?

"Didn't it mean that Boeing was blown up? They probably thought that if Boeing was blown up, we wouldn't be able to build a plane."

After listening to McCain's explanation, Halsey couldn't help laughing: Not to mention that Boeing could not be flattened just like this, even if it was flattened, it would not be possible to paralyze the production capacity of heavy bombers. American aircraft factories are all over the country. However, Seattle's shipyard is one of the only three shipyards on the West Coast that can build escort aircraft carriers and freewheelers. He believes that the current situation is more important than the aircraft factory (Arnold is furious: Just your Navy Shipyard is important, but I don't care about my 6 aircraft factory?)

At 1o:41, the Japanese air defense fighter jets repelled the first wave of US attack group; 11 minutes later, the Japanese fighter jets returning early in the morning took on the main air defense mission and repelled the second wave of US attack group; 7 minutes later, they repelled the third wave of attack group... Part of this US attack group was 6 Airlines and part of HNA. Due to improper cooperation, they all entered the battle in order at a scale of about -5o. Not only did they fail to cause significant damage to the Japanese army, but they suffered heavy casualties and were beaten down 73 aircraft. The Japanese army lost only 14 aircraft, and 9 parachute pilots were "fished" by destroyers, and they were ready to go to heaven after a while.

It was not until 11:18 that the US military gathered nearly 20 large formations to attack. After more than 20 minutes, the aircraft group retreated and took a report on the results of "Our attack group severely damaged the enemy fleet."

In fact, the heavy blow was obviously wrong. It was the Seattle defenders exaggerated the results of the battle to save themselves. It was another matter whether it was intentional or unintentional, but the report sounded quite impressive:

Sinking one Japanese fleet aircraft carrier (the escort carrier Condor caught 4 bombs and sank), suspected of sinking one fleet aircraft carrier (the Yunlong was nearly lost, but it was actually not damaged), and severely damaged one fleet aircraft carrier (the Tiancheng ship caught 1 1ooo-pound bomb at the stern, the loss is not too great and does not affect takeoff and landing);

It severely damaged one enemy-class battleship (Mussashi scored 2 1ooo-pound bombs, which was not even a Zhongchuang), and it was suspected of sinking one other battleship (the one in the King Kong actually only had three near-missile bombs);

At least 1 heavy cruiser, 2 light cruisers, 4 destroyers, and severely damaged enemy heavy cruisers, light cruisers, and destroyers (actually, the Kaohsiung heavy cruiser suffered a 1-2 1ooo-pound bomb, which is considered to be Zhongchuang, Wenyue and Changyue, two Qiuyue-class air defense destroyers, were sunk, and the rest were almost missing bullets).

In addition, in air defense and offensive operations, more than 90 Japanese aircraft were shot down (the Japanese army lost 16 aircraft of various types in actual offensive battles, and 33 fighter aircraft were lost in air defense).

In order to achieve these achievements, the US military, HNA, lost more than 10 aircraft in addition to the losses just now. In the four rounds of attack wars, a total of 226 aircraft of various types were lost. Another 19 aircraft were scrapped after returning to the airport, with an overall loss rate of up to 69%!

The originally serious war between iron and fire was completely distorted by the funnyness that followed by Canadians...
Chapter completed!