The Canadians responded to the American request and sent more than 50 SBDs with bombs and more than 30 TBs carrying torpedoes as the main attack aircraft group to cooperate with the US military's attack. Although they received a request for coordinated combat at 7 o'clock in the morning, they were busy preparing, and they actually assembled and set off until 9 o'clock. The formation was flying slowly. By 12 o'clock, the Kakuda Fleet had not been found. At this time, all the US attack groups had returned, and no one led the Canadians to find the Japanese fleet!

The Japanese fleet was more than 800 kilometers southwest of Seattle. After taking off from Vancouver, the group of Canadian attack aircraft searched and flew for more than 800 kilometers. The distance between the two sides was less than 90 kilometers. The Japanese army had seen attack groups flying on the radar. At this time, most of the air defense fighters had just landed to replenish oil bombs. There were only 12 aircraft in the air with the last little oil bomb left, which was when the fleet had the lowest air defense capabilities.

Helpless Kakuda was ready to let the two aircraft carriers separate at a high speed of 31 knots. As a result, the Canadian commander announced directly on the radio that the enemy's main fleet has not been found at present, and it is estimated that it has been sunk by the US military. Because the oil consumption of the aircraft fleet is over half, he is ready to return!

Half a minute later, he issued a second order: In order to speed up the return speed and reduce fuel consumption, all bombs and torpedoes will be discarded! However, it cannot be thrown away in vain. There seems to be a Japanese cruiser (actually a destroyer) and some Japanese lifeboats on the sea. "The whole army is attacking!"

Then the "Lan" destroyer (Yangyan class) became the most unlucky destroyer in the world. He had obviously been severely damaged by 1,000 pounds of bombs in front and abandoned the ship. He had no ability to resist. As a result, he was beaten up by more than 120 aircraft. The bombs and torpedoes were thrown to him like they were not worth money. Before the last few bombs were dropped, the destroyer was blown to pieces and sank.

The Canadian aircraft group that completed the "practical exercise" proudly returned with the victory of "Our army sinking one enemy cruiser, not losing one itself" and this was the first Japanese warship sunk by the Canadian Air Force, and vigorously counterattacked the invaders!

The other party's communication content was intercepted on the Yunlong and witnessed the other party's true turn around on the radar screen. Kakuda and Arima Zhengwen laughed so hard that their stomachs hurt. They shouted "Blessed by Amaterasu" and laughed. They were still quite clear about the current situation. Today, the two flights ran at most 1,100 kilometers before the sun set, and they were still within the coverage of the US heavy bomber. At least they had to face another challenge. But after surviving this wave just now, they had full confidence to call all spare aircraft. The fleet still had 57 fighters, which were still in battle! As for fuel, everyone no longer thought about this.

However, the US military encountered difficulties in the afternoon bombing. Although Arnold felt that the "glorious results" were "in the battle", the heavy losses from Seattle and Portland Airline Newspaper also said that he could not bear it. There were less than 100 heavy bombings that could still be launched, and the crew was so tired that they didn't even eat lunch.

At the same time, due to distance, HNA was unable to attack, which meant that the next thing that was going to die was the Army Airlines. What made him even more restless was that the morale of the army was floating. Compared with Hawaii, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other places, there were few veterans who could attack long-distance distances. If they fought, they would destroy the entire army. Therefore, under the persuasion of his subordinates, he said at the Joint Conference that China Airlines suffered heavy losses (it has long exceeded the standard of 150 units per week), the personnel were too tired, and the loss of escort was too great, and it proposed to let Halsey deal with it. After all, according to the "war report", the remaining Japanese troops were definitely not opponents of the T50 fleet.

Spruenz disagreed, believing that the important value of the Halsey fleet is to escort fuel back to the flight, and hoped that the Land Airlines would continue to send people to attack. Not only Seattle and Portland's remaining aircraft would attack again, but more than 100 continental airlines in Sacramento should also switch over and attack.

The two sides were quarreling at the Joint Conference, and even Nimitz and MacArthur had their own opinions. Finally, under the mediation of Li Hai, the two factions kicked the ball to Halsey and asked him to decide.

Halsey asked McCain: "Do you think we should fight this Japanese fleet?"

McCain asked back: "Do you think it is important to send fuel safely for a certain period of time, or to eliminate an enemy fleet?"

Although McCain was a rhetorical question, Halsey could hear that the answer was already in the question: Protecting fuel back to Pearl Harbor certainly solved the transportation problem, but as long as the Japanese fleet still exists, they will face the same problem in a few days. However, if the Japanese fleet can be solved once and for all, even if it is only the Kakuda fleet, Halsey believes that the situation can improve. The conditions are very favorable now. The Japanese Kakuda fleet has just suffered a "hard blow" (Halsey believes that the results of the Land Airlines are worth 30% off). The main fleet of the Japanese army is still in Mexico, and the T50 is just stuck between the two Japanese fleets. It is only more than 2 days away from the Kakuda fleet, so it is completely time to fight first.

If you are lucky, you can first eat the Japanese fleet in the north and then turn around and then clean up the Japanese fleet in the south.

Halsey gritted his teeth: "I want to destroy this fleet! Let the transport fleet go around the circle for us and the Japanese main fleet first, and wait for me to destroy the northern fleet and then go south, even if I die with the southern enemy fleet... I will fight all the main force of the joint fleet and see what they will fight in the future!"

At 1:39 pm, he shot a telegram and agreed to change directions to pursue the Kakuta Fleet. He asked the Land Airlines to provide assistance: one sent a reconnaissance plane to inform the last position of the Kakuta Fleet, and the other sent a powerful aircraft group to cover the transport fleet that is still waiting more than 400 kilometers outside Los Angeles.

Arnold, overjoyed, agreed to the request. Spruensbon wanted to send another telegram to persuade Halsey to change his mind, but was stopped by Nimitz. The latter said nothing and just added silently: "Lu Airlines must guard other places..."

Spruins suddenly remembered the information he received at noon today: the main force of the German-Italy Axis fleet had already poured out of the Strait of Gibraltar into the Atlantic Ocean. He could only sigh and said nothing.

After nightfall, Kakuda and others, who were rushing to escape, knew that they were safe. At this time, they began to remember the fuel problem. The Musashi reported that "the remaining fuel of this ship is less than 1,100 tons." In the evening, they also wanted to protect the turbines from problems due to long-term high-speed operation. They ordered the slowdown. While changing the route to the southwest, they lowered the 27 knots to 18 knots, preparing to find Hori Teiki north of Pearl Harbor to replenish fuel.

"The sir can't contact you, you should still be in the silence of the radio."

"It's okay, go to the safe area first and wait until contact with the commander." Kakuda said, "Search it after dawn tomorrow. As long as there is no main enemy fleet around us, our army will be safe. If there is only a small fleet, we will eat him!"

Arima Zhengwen smiled for a while, Kakuda had just escaped and said he wanted to eat the US fleet again. This temper...

They did not know that the T50 fleet had turned its course and rushed towards the north. Although Halsey was not fast and only 16 knots, the number of aircraft carriers and aircraft was several times higher than that of the Kakuda fleet. The routes of both sides were not completely opposite, and there were angles, but they were still approaching medium at a speed of about 35 kilometers per hour.

The sun rose on October 25, and Seattle Airlines reported that it could not find the Japanese fleet. At this time, the Kakuda fleet was more than 1,500 kilometers away from the west coast. However, the US Army Airlines, which took off from Mexico, found the Tsukahara fleet more than 600 kilometers southwest of Baja California (Mexican territory), and was about 2,000 kilometers away from Los Angeles. The overall speed was 18 knots.

While informing the information, Arnold rushed to mobilize Southern China Airlines. After receiving the return crew from China, his strength had recovered, but due to the consumption of several days, even after receiving some supplements, the skilled crew of China Airlines fell below the 3,000 group mark again, leaving only more than 2,600 groups.

Kakuda and Halsey both sent several waves of reconnaissance aircraft during the day, but the distance between the two sides was more than 1,700 kilometers. Although the reconnaissance aircraft of both sides had some intersections, neither of them found each other, so they were all busy rushing to the road. Halsey was worried about the safety of the transport fleet, so he sent telegrams to Arnold three times a day: I mean to annihilate the Kakuda fleet. I will help you. If you have any trouble covering the transport fleet, I will never finish my trip with Luhang when I come back!

Arnold had to deal with the troops coming from Germany and Italy and deal with the West Coast war. He had to force himself to make a promise to Halsey. He felt exhausted and on the verge of collapse. His eyes were straight, his whole body was stiff, and he was staggering. He flew to Los Angeles in the past two days, and then returned to Washington non-stop. After the meeting today, he flew to Seattle to check Boeing's losses and cooperated with Truman to appease the people. He flew to Los Angeles at night to deploy defense work. It was 11 o'clock in the evening. Even the plane was strong and was supported by the adjutant.

He felt that if he could survive, let alone the commander-in-chief of the Independent Air Force, he was afraid that he would be ruined. When he arrived at the command center, everyone could see that he was in very bad condition, his face was all black, but he could barely listen to the defense report and asked his subordinates to monitor carefully before he dared to go to bed to rest. It was already 1 a.m. After lying down, Arnold gasped and told the adjutant: "Help me make a ward in the Army Hospital, it would be better to be closer to General Marshall... If this continues, I will go to the hospital to report sooner or later!"

Just as he fell asleep, Hori Teiki had led a huge support fleet to reach more than 600 kilometers north of Pearl Harbor without anyone noticing. While approaching, he completed his final attack preparation.
Chapter completed!