"What is this?"

"Rudolph, what do you think it looks like?"

"Like a balloon. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info "Little Hesman stayed on the USS Mizuho seaplane carrier for 8 days, and on the night of February 22, he was taken to the seaplane deck by Minoru Genda.

The time has finally come to unravel the mystery!

There were no seaplanes on the deck, but there were quite a few sailors who inflate what looked like balloons.

"It's a sailboat bomb." Minoru Genda said with a smile, "It's just a hydrogen balloon with bombs and incendiary bombs and flying towards the west coast of the United States, and if you're lucky, it's going to fall near Los Angeles and drop the bomb on the heads of the Americans!" ”

As Minoru Genda spoke, a balloon filled with hydrogen had already flown into the sky, and there was a black thing hanging under the balloon, which should be a bomb.

"Genda-kun, you're not kidding, are you?" Little Hersman craned his neck to look at the balloons flying higher and higher under the moonlight, "This thing is a balloon, and it doesn't have an engine or propeller, are you sure it will fly to the United States?" ”

"Yes!" Minoru Genda smiled, "Because at an altitude of about 9,000-11,000 meters above the mouth of the Pacific Ocean, there is an upper-atmosphere jet stream that is steadily heading eastward, and once the balloon enters this air current, it can fly at a speed of 160-300 kilometers per hour. We're 500-600 nautical miles from the west coast of the United States, which is 4 to 6 hours from now, and the windboat bombs we release will reach the United States. ”

The person who discovered this upper-atmosphere jet stream was named Toshimi Arakawa, a Japanese meteorologist. In the original history, he proposed to bomb the brains of the United States with balloon bombs, which was also adopted by the Japanese leadership. In the end, 9,000 balloon bombs were made, killing 6 Americans......

However, it was a balloon release from the Japanese mainland, and it had to fly about 10,000 kilometers. And now, because Japan controls most of the Hawaiian Islands and the Pacific Ocean, it can send seaplane carriers to release balloons less than 1,000 kilometers from the continental United States. The distance is 10 times worse, and the accuracy is completely different.

"And this kind of thing?" Little Hersman saw another balloon with a bomb flying into the sky, "How many balloons will we release tonight?" ”

"600." Minoru Genda replied, "Each seaplane carrier carries 200 windboat bombs, and each windboat bomb carries one 150-kilogram bomb and two incendiary bombs. ”

That is, 1800 bombs and incendiary bombs! It's not a lot, but it's a big panic.

Genda watched one after another windboat bombs fly into the sky, and smiled slightly: "In the future, we will often come to release windboat bombs...... Now it is a water aircraft carrier, and in the future, we will use a special wind boat carrier, modified with a merchant ship, and you can put 300 pieces at a time, there are dozens of them, and we can fly the wind boat every day, which is pleasant to think about! ”

Bombs fall every day, and they are defenseless, which is enough for the Americans!

Little Hersman said that now the Japanese had found a way to torment the Americans, and they really wanted to see Roosevelt's expression after he knew that his West Coast was bombed by balloons every day.

……

When 1,800 bombs and incendiary bombs hung on balloons and flew towards the United States at a speed of about 200 kilometers per hour. President Roosevelt was meeting with Soviet Ambassador Litvinov, and now that Britain was on its knees, the United States and the Soviet Union were the only two great powers left in the Allied camp, the relationship between the two sides was naturally much closer.

Litvinov had come to discuss with Roosevelt about joint support for the Indian revolution.

The Brahmin revolutionaries who had to be served by servants even wiping their buttocks had now been cordially received by the great leader of the Soviet Union, and had now arrived in Afghanistan accompanied by Serov.

And on Afghan soil, more than 200,000 heavily armed Soviet Red Army troops are in position, ready to attack the northwest of India and liberate the sluts who have been oppressed there for thousands of years.

Now Litvinov had come to seek Roosevelt's support for the Soviet Red Army's just action to liberate the untouchables of India.

Of course, Litvinov did not come empty-handed. He also brought Roosevelt the good news that the Soviet Red Navy's Atlantic Fleet would sail for the Pacific Ocean via the Arctic Ocean route in the summer of 1943.

"The time will soon be ripe for the liberation of India," Roosevelt said to Litvinov with a smile, "and according to the exact information we have, the Anglo-Indian authorities, supported by Germany, rejected Mahatma Gandhi's demands." In addition, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler also addressed the Parliament of the European Communities, declaring that he would like to hear the news that Mr. Gandhi had starved to death. Once Mr. Gandhi starves to death, the people of India will surely boil. I think if you had attacked at that time, the public opinion of the whole world would have supported you. ”

Litvinov smiled bitterly, then shook his head and said, "Mr. President, I'm afraid Gandhi won't starve to death." ”

"Won't?" Roosevelt asked, puzzled, "Why?" He's on a hunger strike, it's said he's been starving for days, he should be dying, right? ”

Mahatma Gandhi went on hunger strike for the sake of "Britain's exit from India", believing that the new British government would be afraid that he would starve to death and would make some concessions on the issue of withdrawing from India. However, he did not expect that Hitler, in his speech to the Parliament of the European Communities, would openly declare that "Gandhi is welcome to starve to death". Hitler also said: "No matter how many Indians starve to death, Germany will not be afraid, and cannot think of a reason to be afraid." ”

"Because according to the information we have," said Litvinov, with a look of regret, "the day after Hitler declared that he wanted Gandhi to starve to death, the Mahatma of the Indian people was already feasting and drinking in prison." ”

The intelligence of the Soviets was, of course, very accurate, and Comrade Stalin even got his hands on Mahatma Gandhi's recipes in prison - although they were all vegetarian dishes and had no oil or water, they certainly did not starve to death.

"Huh?" Roosevelt was stunned, "Mr. Gandhi didn't plan to starve himself to death?" ”

"It seems so," said Litvinov, nodding, "that Mr. Gandhi thinks that the brutal Nazi regime will not care if its opponents die on hunger strike, and may even be happy, and therefore he cannot do anything to please the enemy." ”

Roosevelt tilted his head and said, "I have to say, this is a very wise thing to do, Mahatma Gandhi is really a wise man." And he has high prestige among the Indian people, and if India gains independence and freedom in the future, Mahatma Gandhi should be the Washington of India, the Lenin of India! ”

A Washington on a hunger strike? A non-violent Lenin?

Litvinov was very unimpressed, but he nodded frequently, and regarded Gandhi as a banner to fool the Indians as a decision made by Stalin after learning about the current state of the Indian revolution.

"Yes, Mr. Gandhi can become the great president of the future Republic of India!" As Litvinov spoke, the image of a half-naked, thin old man on a hunger strike in the palatial presidential palace already came to mind......

"Did the USSR also support Gandhi?" Roosevelt pressed further.

"Yes, we support Gandhi." "We hope that in the future there will be a coalition government in India that includes all kinds of progressive forces," Litvinov said. ”

This, of course, was foolish, and Roosevelt did not believe it at all. But politically, it's true -- a liberal India that includes progressive forces from all sides, free, democratic, peace-loving, and whatever, is good anyway. In this way, the US Congress and the people at home will no longer be concerned about how much the United States has suffered in aiding the Indian revolution.

No sooner had Litvinov left with a satisfactory reply than Colonel Caton, the aide-de-camp of the President of the United States, walked in briskly.

"Mr. President, the Army Staff just called, and the West Coast Air Defense Command reported that radar has detected a large number of UFOs approaching the West Coast of the United States."

"UFOs?" Roosevelt immediately became nervous, "Is it the Japanese bomber group?" ”

"It doesn't seem to be...... Because the speed of those UFOs seems to be very slow, less than 200 kilometers per hour. ”

"Less than 200 km?" Roosevelt breathed a sigh of relief, even a bomber at this speed was looking for dead goods.

Due to the fall of Hawaii, the U.S. Army Air Corps has long been deployed on the west coast of North America (not only the west coast of the United States), deploying a large number of P51s, P38s, P40s, and P47s, and many air search radars, all the way from Alaska to Panama. Moreover, in the major cities on the west coast, there are also a large number of anti-aircraft artillery groups belonging to the National Guard, and tens of thousands of anti-aircraft guns of various calibers are deployed.

Unless it is a high-altitude and high-speed bomber like the JU288 that can penetrate at night, it will not threaten the big cities on the west coast of the United States at all.

Therefore, Roosevelt did not take these "UFOs" seriously, and went to sleep with peace of mind -- he and Litvinov discussed for almost a night for the freedom and independence of the Indian people, and they were really tired.

However, the American president's sleep did not last long when he was woken up by a surprising news.

Because quite a few areas of the West Coast of the United States have been bombed! Dozens of bombs and incendiary bombs fell on Los Angeles and nearby San Diego, causing more than 20 casualties and damage to more than a dozen buildings.

These casualties and losses are really nothing, the American people are not so vulnerable, and what really surprises people is the way the Japanese air strikes.

It was not bombers that came, but balloons with bombs on them! And these balloons are all unmanned.

In other words, the Japanese (because the balloon flew from the direction of the Pacific Ocean, so the US Army Air Corps estimated that the Japanese released it) caused the loss of life and property to the United States with zero casualties, and this is the real shock and worrying thing. (To be continued.) )