Spruance didn't know how much of a sensation he had in the country, and he was sure that the owner of the White House would be furious, and someone would have to take responsibility for it. Later, the port commander in New Orleans, as well as the garrison commander in Louisiana, were out of luck. The two men were only the main substitutes, and the commander in charge of New Orleans' air defense was killed in the vicinity of the bombed levee, which burst at the time. This was a good result, and instead of being punished, he was posthumously awarded a Congressional Medal for his heroic fighting spirit, and no one knows whether he fought valiantly at that time, or whether he was killed while fleeing for his life.

These things about finding the dead ghost also have little to do with Spruance. Now, New Orleans is definitely not going to go, and he only has two other ports to choose from, one is Miami and the other is San Diego. Relatively speaking, Spruance would definitely choose Miami instead of Santiago, because he knew that the Greater Andres Islands would not be able to hold for long at all, and if the 6th team of the Tang Empire came over quickly, then his fleet would be trapped in San Diego, and he would not even have a chance to struggle. However, at this time, it was not Spruance who decided the actions of the fleet at all.

On the afternoon of the 18th, Spruance ordered the fleet to turn around and prepare to go to Miami for a temporary stay, but as soon as the fleet had completed the turn, he received a telegram from Admiral King, telling him to stay at sea and not to rush to Miami. And the flotilla to replenish the fleet with fuel and other supplies will rush over to meet him as soon as possible. That is, it is impossible for the Atlantic Fleet to go to Miami. In desperation, Spruance had no choice but to modify the order and let the fleet continue to linger in the southeastern waters of the Gulf of Mexico, that is, the sea where it meets the Florida Strait. Wait for new commands.

Spruance could almost guess why Admiral King had let him stay at sea, and at this point, there must have been a call for a retaliatory strike at home, and the most likely retaliatory mission would be the Atlantic Fleet, not the shore-based aviation. Because of this, Spruance felt like a prisoner waiting to be sentenced. As a calm commander, if it were up to him to decide the actions of the Atlantic Fleet. Then now it is better to return to Norfolk than to stay here. Above all, there should never be any retaliatory action, at least not for the Atlantic Fleet. Quite simply, since the enemy dared to sneak up on New Orleans, he was ready for a retaliatory strike. The point of revenge is not very great, and it is even less worth using the only fleet to accomplish this task. Maybe. There is not even the possibility of completing this task, and the commander of the Tang Imperial Fleet is also waiting for the Atlantic Fleet to take the initiative to send it to the door.

These questions are also not up to Spruance to decide, he is only the commander of the fleet, and he is only the chief of the general staff of the fleet, not even the commander of the fleet, and he is thousands of kilometers away from Washington, he does not even have a chance to speak, where is his turn to call the shots. And Washington at this time, including the President of the United States. Admiral Marshall, Chief of the General Staff of the Sixth Army, Admiral King, Secretary of the Navy, Admiral Arnold, Commander of the Air Forces of the Sixth Army, Admiral Eisenhower, Commander-in-Chief of the Western Theater of Operations who had just arrived by plane, and a large group of other senior generals were discussing the aftermath in the Oval Conference Room of the White House, and one of the main topics was whether to retaliate and how to retaliate.

Before and during the meeting, the intelligence services of the US military, as well as several units of the front, were actively operating. By the evening of the eighteenth. That is, after the meeting lasted for nearly 6 hours, and the participants had dinner in the middle. The intelligence services got their hands first.

U.S. intelligence agencies first found the two missing spies, and then quickly activated a "mole" lurking in the Mexican government that had never been "used", and first found out that the bombing was carried out by the Tang Empire Expeditionary Force. As the investigation deepened, by the evening of the same day, the U.S. intelligence services had learned some real information, including the colonel's staff officer who had secretly arrived, and a special heavy bomber unit that had subsequently arrived, as well as a batch of strange-looking bombs. However, at that time, the intelligence services were not able to obtain stronger evidence, such as photographs, and could not judge the authenticity of this information.

The army at the scene of the investigation also quickly made gains. The wreckage of the downed bomber was found, and although only the skeleton of the bomber remained, as well as some parts that had not been burned, American aeronautical engineers immediately judged that this was a new type of bomber, a bomber that had never appeared on the battlefield before, and had never been shot down. The engineers took photographs of the wreckage and measured the wreckage. The specific analysis has not yet been completed, so it is impossible to guess the approximate performance of the new bomber.

The biggest gain was that a U.S. military search force found shrapnel from the bomb that had jumped over the levee and exploded in the clearing. At that time, the U.S. military found a total of five relatively large pieces of shrapnel, and then technicians spliced and restored them. It is almost impossible to restore the entire bomb with a few pieces of shrapnel. However, one of the shrenchnel was the shell of the bomb, and one of the engineers who participated in the restoration work at that time had secretly participated in the British work on the manufacture of the "barrel" bomb, and he could see at a glance the origin of the shrapnel, and it must have been left behind after the explosion of a bomb similar to the "barrel".

With these three pieces of information, the situation is basically clear. The bombing was commanded by a mysterious colonel officer, although it was confirmed that he was only a colonel of the 6th Army, but it was most likely a colonel of the aviation corps under a pseudonym, and an officer belonging to the heavy bomber unit. The bombing mission was carried out by a bomber force consisting of 12 new bombers, and/or British troops. The bomb used was similar to the one used by the British to destroy the Ruhr dam "barrel". Combined with the descriptions of some anti-aircraft gunners who participated in the battle at the time, the US military quickly "resumed" the bombing campaign. This is only the final stage, and where these bombers flew from, what routes they used, and how they finally retreated, these need to be investigated and explored more deeply to know.

At this point, the president of the United States has everything he needs. The meeting quickly got to the point, whether to retaliate, and how. In the first.