Late on the night of 11 July, after receiving the news from Huang Xiaotian, Lei Shaoqing rushed to Panama City, found the supreme commander of the theater navy's strategic strike force, and put forward a request to focus on bombing the port of San Diego between the night of 23 and the early morning of 24 July.

Comparatively speaking, since the end of the strategic bombing of Japan and Luo Yunchong's departure from the strategic strike force, the status of the strategic strike force in the navy has been reduced a lot; although it is still an independent branch of the army, in many cases, there is no separate strategic strike force command in the theater command, but a major general or brigadier general of the strategic strike force is appointed as the deputy chief of staff of the theater, and the theater commander commands the operations of the strategic strike force in a unified manner. It is clear that its status is much lower than that of the fleet, and in many cases it is even up to the fleet to arrange the actions of the strategic strike force.

At that time, Han Shaofeng was not in Panama City, but went to the 6th Unit, and he had been actively preparing for the attack on Jamaica during this time, and he rarely returned to Panama City except for the few times Luo Yun rushed in. When Han Shaofeng was not there, Lei Shaoqing was the supreme general of the Navy's Caribbean Theater, and his command authority was also the greatest, and the commander of the strategic strike force naturally had to obey his command. But the problem is that even if you obey orders, you have to have prerequisites. At that time, the basic conditions in the Caribbean were quite poor.

As already mentioned, in the entire Central American region there are not many airfields that can support shore-based aviation. Among them, there are only a handful of large airports with 25oo meters of runway, which not only has a huge impact on Gu Xunlei's 6th Army Expeditionary Force, but also has a huge impact on naval aviation and strategic strike forces.

Before Gu Xunlei's arrival, it was Han Shaofeng who led the combat operations in Central America and the Caribbean. At that time, Han Shaofeng had already decided to invest more engineering troops to expand the airport and port, and even planned to build at least ten large regular airports, as well as dozens of field airports. At that time, because there was no problem of assigning command to the 6th Army and competing for maritime forces, the arrangement of these projects was not very complicated. The engineering troops and engineering materials can be transported quickly, but the arrival of Gu Xunlei, to be precise, is the arrival of the expeditionary force of the 6th Army of the Empire, which finally changed the situation dramatically.

After the entry of the 6 Army Expeditionary Force into the war. The first thing that went wrong was sea freight. It was no longer possible for Han Shaofeng to obtain sufficient shipping capacity, and he had been preparing for a long time to attack the Little Andres Islands. The main problem is that the combat materials needed and the combat units have not been able to arrive for a long time, so how can they still be able to transport engineering troops and engineering materials? The second is that the boundaries of authority between Gu Xunlei and Han Shaofeng are not clear. In terms of theater planning, the entire Central American Region of the Sixth Army belongs to the Central American Theater of the Sixth Army and is under the unified command of Gu Xunlei. However, before Han Shaofeng conquered the Greater Andres Islands, his main base was still in Central America, especially near the Panama Canal, that is. Han Shaofeng still had to stay on the territory that Gu Xunlei was in charge of planning offensive operations. In this way, the question of who should be responsible for the infrastructure work in Central America has been exposed.

In Gu Xunlei's view, the navy, especially the Navy 6 Squadron, has rich engineering experience, honed in the Pacific Theater for so many years, the Imperial Navy 6 Squadron has 3o engineering troops, a large number of engineering facilities, and is very familiar with the construction of airports, expansion of ports and other work, and the 6 Squadron is still in Central America. Naval aviation has also deployed a large number of combat aircraft here, so the construction of airfields should naturally be the responsibility of the navy. Instead of being in charge of the 6th Army, that is, Han Shaofeng was in charge.

Han Shaofeng didn't want to take on this responsibility, he was already worried that there were not enough troops and supplies to attack the Greater Andres Islands. In addition, the Central American Big 6 has been allocated to the 6th Army, which is part of the 6th Army's Central American Theater, and the 6th Army and the HNA are just temporarily borrowing a place to settle down, so they can't make the Navy pay for "accommodation", right? The construction of the airport should naturally be in charge of Gu Xunlei.

In the final analysis, the core problem at that time was that the consumption and investment of the six armies of the empire on the battlefield had exceeded the degree of supply by sea, that is, it could not make ends meet. Both Gu Xunlei and Han Shaofeng used their main forces on the frontal battlefield, and at the same time they both counted on the other side to be responsible for non-combat tasks in logistics support and infrastructure construction, and as a result, both sides of the offensive appeared to lack staying power, and the lack of infrastructure had a huge negative impact on both sides.

This problem also affects the Navy's Strategic Strike Force. According to Han Shaofeng's original plan, after the capture of the Yucatan Peninsula, at least 1o large airfields will be built by the middle of the year to deploy at least 8ooo heavy bombers (if these airfields are built, the actual deployment capacity will be more than 15oo), and then first against Mexico ~ and military bases, the prelude to strategic bombing. The plan was quite ambitious, and at that time, the Strategic Strike Force even came up with a list of targeted strikes, putting the oil extraction industry in the southern region of the United States at the forefront. At the same time, the heavy bomber unit, which has not performed well on the battlefield for a long time, is even more eager to try, as early as 3 parts, the strategic strike force transferred at least 1ooo heavy bombers to Oahu, and then transferred there.

What happened later made Han Shaofeng's plan come to naught, and at the same time, the bombers of the Strategic Strike Force had to continue to stay in the Hawaiian Islands. By the beginning of June, only about 4oo heavy bombers were transferred to the Central American region, and all of them were deployed at airfields in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and other places. From these airports, the one-way route to the continental United States is 2ooo kilometers long, which has passed the "wolf dove" (among the bombers, there are dozens of reconnaissance models, in fact, only 35o can carry out bombing missions at most.

35o is not a lot, if you go out together, you can throw 1ooo to 2ooo bombs at a time, and with the use of incendiary bombs, it is enough to destroy a medium-sized city with a population of 2o million. Yes, these 35o bombers are distributed