"Collapse! Collapse... The New York Stock Exchange Building collapsed!"
"Did you take pictures?"
"I took it, I took it all!"
"Okay, we are about to return home... remember to drop leaflets to let the United States know that we will come again!"
As Feng Mingshan spoke, he pulled hard on the control stick of the plane, pulled up the nose of the plane, quickly raised the altitude, then turned a corner and flew towards the sea southeast of Manhattan - two carrier aircraft, Akagi and Kaga The frigates are now wandering on the sea only fifty kilometers away from Manhattan. Standing on the tallest skyscraper in New York and looking through a telescope, you can see the tall mainmasts of the two frigates.
But being able to see does not mean being able to fight. The distance of 50 kilometers is already a long distance that all current coastal defense artillery can't reach. And shore-based aircraft...the shore-based aircraft of the U.S. Army Air Forces and Naval Air Forces can fly that far. But it can only be a one-way flight, and the pilot has to swim 10 or 20 kilometers in the sea to come back. It's better in the summer. At most, I'm chased by sharks and bitten a few times. But it was winter, and swimming in the North Atlantic would be suicidal.
Those aircraft cannot carry heavy bombs. At most, they can only throw a few large grenades, which does not pose much threat to the aircraft-carrying frigates. Moreover, this time Saigo also left two squadrons of Sea Flying Dragons on the decks of the two frigates, ready to take off for combat at any time.
Therefore, the aircraft and airships sent by New York pose no threat to the aircraft-carrying frigates in the Texas Sea. But the six Americans' Pennsylvania-class armored cruisers are a big trouble... According to aircraft reconnaissance, they are now about 100 kilometers away from the "Texas Sea Self" aviation detachment, and are already flying on Ssangyong aircraft and Sea Flying Dragons. out of the strike range. Moreover, it was already afternoon, and when it got dark, Dezhou Haizi's Double Dragon and Sea Flying Dragon would be useless.
These days, there are no carrier-based aircraft that can attack at night.
In addition, the winter weather in the North Atlantic is quite severe, and there are many periods of high sea conditions. In the case of high winds and rough seas, it is inconvenient for carrier-based aircraft to dispatch, so the possibility of aircraft-based frigates like Akagi and Kaga being caught by enemy armored cruisers still exists. Therefore, we must take advantage of the opportunity when it is still dark and the American armored cruiser is still timid and dare not approach, and quickly run away at full power!
Before escaping, of course, there had to be another wave of hatred, so there was the second wave of air raids on New York that took place at about one o'clock in the afternoon on November 26. Different from the random bombings during the first wave of air raids, the Double Dragons and Sea Flying Dragons who visited New York for the second time were obviously familiar with the roads. After flying over New York, they immediately descended and then identified the buildings and streets. I soon found Wall Street. This time the explosion is even more accurate! The Second Bank of the United States Building, the New York Stock Exchange Building, the Amtrak Building, and the New York State Bank Headquarters were all damaged. Each building was hit by at least five 100-kilogram high-explosive bombs! Among them, the New York Stock Exchange Building was the hardest-hit area. It was hit by 11 high-explosive bombs, and the building collapsed, destroying more than a hundred bankers and traders who were engaged in "backroom trading" in the basement to defraud customers. All buried alive...
Not to mention, after the New York Stock Exchange building was blown up, the pilots of Ssangyong and Sea Dragon dropped tens of thousands of leaflets while flying the plane away! It is also a "bilingual" flyer, printed in English and Spanish. The content means it all - we'll be back! Come back and drop bombs! They will come again and again until the United States completely gives up its ambitions in Texas and compensates all the losses caused by the invasion of Texas to the Japanese immigrants in Texas!
This hatred value was suddenly raised to full. When US President Jackson knew about it, he would not hesitate to order the pursuit of the Texas Marine Air Squadron? But this is exactly the purpose of Saigo, Enomoto and Zhuge Weidao who are remotely commanding from Pearl Harbor... They don't care whether the bombing of Wall Street will anger the American people now. They just want to block it in Mexico. All the main forces of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet in the Gulf were mobilized so that the Texas Sea convoy escort detachment, which was slowly traveling along the coastline of the Empire of Mexico, could enter the Gulf of Mexico.
The five troop carriers and several transport ships of the Texas Marine Corps' escort unit contained an entire mixed brigade and thousands of supplementary troops, as well as a large amount of weapons and ammunition, as well as 36 shore-based Dragon fighter-bombers.
Once these personnel, equipment and ammunition are all in place, not only will Texas City be fortified, but the Texas mainland will also be able to launch a counterattack against the strongholds established by American immigrants in eastern and northern Texas!
The victory of the Texas Japanese Self-Defense Force will also greatly encourage the Mexican Emperor Agustin I... The opportunity to become the Napoleon of North America is right in front of him. It would be too cowardly for him not to win.
Moreover, with the Americans' urinary temperament, even if Agustin I is timid, they will definitely invade Mexico on a large scale after defeating the Japanese Self-Defense Forces in Texas.
Therefore, Agustin I had no other way out!
...
Off the coast of New York, in the bridge of the USS Pennsylvania armored cruiser cruising in the vast North Atlantic, General Staff Major Farragut suddenly shouted.
"Sir, we received a telegram signed by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States of America!"
When David Porter, who was standing in front of the chart table with his arms folded and worried, heard about this signature, he immediately realized that it was a telegram from the President of the United States!
Although the President of the United States is the commander-in-chief under the Constitution, the commander-in-chief of the United States military does not usually issue direct orders to front-line commanders.
Now that President Jackson has broken tradition and issued a telegram directly to the Commander of the Atlantic Fleet, something big must have happened!
"Little David, what happened?" David Porter couldn't wait to take the telegram and read it himself and asked first.
"Sir...the Japanese air raided New York for the second time, focusing on Wall Street!"
"Damn it!" David Porter cursed, "It must be the wealthy people on Wall Street who put pressure on the president, so..."
"No, that's not the case." Major David Farragut said to his godfather while handing over the telegraph newspaper. "The Japanese dropped many leaflets when they left New York, claiming that they would come to bomb New York again!"
"What? You dropped a leaflet?" Lieutenant General David Porter's face turned even more ugly. "This is obviously a trick... Even if the Japanese want to bomb New York in the future, they don't need to drop leaflets about it now, right? "
"Lieutenant General," David Farragut said thoughtfully, "Their purpose should be to attract us to pursue them, right?"
David Porter nodded, "Not only does he want to attract us to chase him, he probably also wants to attract Rear Admiral Perry's battleship squadron to block it... so that their troop carriers can enter the Gulf of Mexico through the Yucatan Strait."
Anyone who can become the commander of the Atlantic Fleet is a fool. What are Zhuge Weidao and the others thinking? How can David Porter not know? The purpose of bombing New York, besides scaring the capitalists on Wall Street, was not to attract the main force of the Atlantic Fleet to move north?
Once the Atlantic Fleet leaves the Gulf of Mexico, the self-contained troop transport ships from Texas Sea will enter!
"Lieutenant General," David Faglat reminded, "that is an order from the President of the United States! If we don't comply..."
"I understand, little David." David Porter nodded, "Now these damn Japanese motherships and the biplanes on them are already the biggest threat to the United States of America! If we let them go... I, the Atlantic Fleet, The commander may be responsible for the New York bombing this time!"
Lieutenant General Porter thought for a while and made up his mind. He said: "We have no chance... We are only a few dozen nautical miles away from them now, and it is getting dark. If we launch a pursuit now, we will be dead before dawn tomorrow." There is a high probability that we can catch up!
As long as I can catch up, I will become an American hero! "
