In the evening of April 1943, when Hori Teki led the main fleet that completed the Battle of Panama was about to enter the port at Hero Port, Tsukahara Nishiso-San led the maneuvering fleet to quietly reach a place less than 7 oo kilometers from New York.

After crossing the Puerto Rico Strait and bypassing the Bermuda Air Defense Circle, the mobile fleet advanced in seclusion and finally arrived at the exit where Tsukahara hoped to arrive without any danger. Tsukahara did not participate in the Pearl Harbor sneak attack, but veterans including Genda Shizumi and Mizuo Fujita said that this time the voyage was much easier and simpler than the last time, and there were no merchant ships on traditional routes.

In fact, no one realized that after Germany occupied the Yar Islands, the Atlantic power balance was greatly changed, posing a huge threat to the British and American maritime routes. Not only did there be no ship dare to enter the Yar Islands within the 80-kilometer air defense circle, but the Mid-Atlantic route was almost cut off.

There was once a merchant ship who was lucky. With the cover of escort warships, his own navigation was not slow, so he planned to pass by more than 1 ooo kilometers away from Yar, but was ruthlessly attacked by joint attack aircraft. After the German army built large airports and bases on each island, the threat to traditional Atlantic routes was even greater because the island was deployed with ju-29obsp; the upgraded equipment of this large four-patrol aircraft "Atlantic Vulture" F-2oo is 44 kilometers per hour, with a longer range (over 6 ooo kilometers), which can fully cover 1 ooo around Yar. The sea area in the sea, coupled with the sea search radar installed on the aircraft, is simply unfavorable. Once the merchant fleet is aware of it, they will call the joint attack aircraft to attack at a close distance, and deploy submarines in advance to ambush the opponent's routes. Compared to the headless flies that were bumped into each other, I don't know where Gao Ming is going. According to Denitz's idea, if a broken-traffic aircraft carrier formation can be permanently stationed near Hero Port, there is almost no merchant fleet that can escape the pursuit. This is also what Hoffman has always emphasized, the essence of the joint combat of the five-in-one strike force of the navy.

With Ju-29o as the monitoring post, the German military's breakthrough process was much simplified and the efficiency was doubled. The American merchant fleet was forced to have no choice but to change to a winding sea route northward along the east coast of the United States, to the near Prince Edward Island in Canada, then turn west, cross the Gulf of St. Lawrence from the waterway behind Newfoundland Island, then head towards Greenland, and then take the North Atlantic route to unload the cargo. The overall journey was 45oo nautical miles, one quarter longer than the original distance, and it also had to deal with the wind and waves of the North Atlantic climate. As a result, the Mid-Atlantic route, which was originally dense and frequent, became deserted, which eventually facilitated the maneuvering fleet assault.

"Sir, we received a long telegram from Berlin, but the telegram was signed strangely, not the Supreme Command of Germany, but in the name of Minister Spel, who told us from the perspective of an architect what New York is worth bombing and he thought it was easy to succeed."

Tsukahara smiled slightly: "The Germans guessed it?"

"This name sounds familiar, architect?" Genda Shikan raised his head in confusion, "He is not a soldier?"

"He was the Minister of the Third Emperor, Yuan's most trusted cabinet minister, but he used to be an architect."

Minami Genda tsk in a word: "Are Germany now even architects pointing fingers at military operations?"

Kusato Ryunosuke shook his head: "This is not an ordinary architect. He has mastered the production of arms in Germany, known as the Economic Yuan. Under his management, the arms production of the Third Reich more than doubled after the general mobilization. Chief Horitoki highly praised him, believing that our Japan lacked such a soul figure, so that the economy and production made a mess, the Minister of the Tao was not worthy of being a student for him, but they all regarded themselves very high and arrogant."

"Oh... don't mention it." When it comes to production source Tashi, he was only disheartened. He took this opportunity to visit the military-industrial enterprises in Germany. Looking at the planes, tanks, and trucks that were drooling from the assembly line, they recalled the domestic industrial giants. Although they looked quite good on the outside, they felt ashamed of their weak productivity when compared to the output. They felt that they were not much better than workshops. This is what they were called mechanized large-scale production.

Just as the senior executives were chatting, the pilots on the deck gathered together to refer to the information.

"New York Travel Manual?" A veteran pilot was stunned on the spot, turned his head and asked Mitsuo Shinda, "Is this thing wrong? We went to bomb New York, what does it mean to give a travel manual?"

Mizuo Furida smiled wickedly on the spot: "Of course it's right! There is a map on the travel manual, which is marked very clearly, and there are various pictures inside, all of which are the most famous landmarks in New York. The lord is afraid that you will recognize the wrong target!"

"Okay, let's have a good look." Everyone cheered.

A leader of the he-218 formation immediately shouted: "The Statue of Liberty is the target of our group, don't rob it!"

"We want the Empire State Building!"

"Our formation wants Rockefeller Center!"

"I want to bring the incendiary bomb to bomb Long Island, and there are all big capitalists!"

Just as the bomber pilots were happily competing for the assignment of targets, Mitsuo Fujida came to Shigeji Murata: "The chief has a special explanation, and ask you to pick 6 best-skilled pilots to hang torpedoes to attack."

"Torpedo?" Murata Shigeji thought he had heard it wrong, "Didn't he say he wanted to bomb New York? Didn't he bring 8oo kilograms of heavy bombs?"

"No." Mitsuo Shizuda pointed to the tourist map and said, "There is a large bridge called Brooklyn Bridge on the East River in New York. Minister Sperer pointed out that a bridge pier is not far from the main channel of the river, with a water depth of nearly meter and the bridge deck is about 40 meters away from the water surface. If you attack it with torpedo, it is very likely that the bridge will be paralyzed. And according to his experience, in order to prevent ships from colliding at night, there are lighting lights on the bridge pier for prompting, so it is easier to identify..."

Shigeji Murata knew that this was risky, otherwise Mizuo Fumida would not have called the name and asked to pick the best pilot. He looked at the picture album carefully for a few times, closed his eyes and thought for a while, and said, "Okay, I will complete this mission."

"Be careful, be careful!"

"No problem, don't worry."

At 9 p.m., the mobile fleet began to gallop westward at 24 knots, preparing to take the risk of narrowing the distance to about 4 oo kilometers... (To be continued.)8

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Chapter completed!