Although the way home of the Fletcher fleet took a bunch of "wronged" roads with twists and turns, this extremely conservative and stable route did not give the malicious Japanese Combined Fleet the slightest chance to attack.

On 24 April, the fleet, which had traveled more than 10,000 kilometers, finally returned to its home port of San Francisco.

On the same day, US President John Dewey personally came to San Francisco, where he presented the medal to General Fletcher for completing this "epic great expedition."

Although the losses in the air raid on Tokyo outweighed the losses, eight months after the outbreak of the war, the Americans finally succeeded in smashing the bombers on the Japanese mainland, which can be regarded as a victory.

While the U.S. government was taking advantage of this victory to hype up and brag, the high-speed fleet led by Li Huamei quietly headed for San Francisco amid a lively uproar.

Due to the factor of distance, when Fletcher's fleet entered the Bering Sea, the pursuit and interception fleet commanded by Li Huamei was still nearly 2,000 kilometers away from the Bering Sea.

Later, in order to ensure the absolute safety of Fletcher's fleet, the United States sent a large number of B-17s as reconnaissance planes to search the sea area close to the west coast of 1,500 kilometers on a large scale.

Such a fanfare search naturally alarmed the air forces of the Japanese Navy stationed in the Aleutian Islands. During this period, the size of the Japanese garrison on the Aleutian island and the number of aircraft were not high, but the large-scale operation of the American air force still alarmed them.

For the Japanese Navy, which was searching hard at sea, the US military's method of conducting reconnaissance sorties on a large scale was simply three hundred taels of silver here, and they were telling them that they had attacked Tokyo and were about to return from the Bering Sea.

If the Japanese Navy's elm head were to command this naval battle, the Japanese Combined Ship Fleet would rush headlong into the Bering Sea at this time, and then fight a hard-fought naval battle with the US land-based air force and naval air force here.

But Li Huamei, who is now regarded as the god of the Japanese navy, was on the battleship Yamato. Li Huamei knew very well that if she wanted to drag on the Pacific War for a longer time, she could only pursue a score of 3 to 0 in every naval battle, not a score of 10 to 3, and the Japanese navy, which had scarce capital, was far less able to bear losses than the United States.

Li Huamei, who knows the history of the future. It was very clear that in order to receive the Fletcher fleet and return safely to the southern ports, the Americans, who had a large family, could dispatch a large number of escort aircraft to provide them with uninterrupted continuous cover. So from the moment she got the information, she completely gave up the idea of a halfway volley and sneak attack, and focused on the preparatory plan.

According to Li Huamei's plan, the Combined Fleet would launch a deep sneak attack on the day when the Fetcher fleet reached the end point. The safe return to the home port after so long of nervous collapse was not only the most relaxed moment for the Fletcher fleet, but also the most relaxed moment for the U.S. homeland air defense forces.

As early as April 13, when it was decided to use the reserve plan to sneak attack the US fleet returning to Hong Kong, Li Huamei was on 13 April. Just at sea there was an aircraft transfer. She transferred seventy-five Bat attack planes from three escort carriers to three combat carriers, and correspondingly, transferred sixty unused Sky Thunder fighter-bombers to escort carriers to make room.

Before the attack from Hawaii, the hangars of the three combat aircraft carriers were already carrying 15 Bat attack planes each, and with the newly transferred ones, the number of Bat attack planes has increased to 120. The escort carrier and the high-speed fleet then disengaged and returned to Hawaii, while the high-speed fleet changed course. Plunge straight to the west coast of the United States and wait for your time.

To achieve this operational objective. The first thing to do is to determine which end point the target is.

In this sneak attack, Fletcher's fleet was an ultra-long-range raid across the entire Pacific Ocean, and the warships traveled back and forth at sea for more than two months, and in order to avoid the pursuit of the Japanese Navy afterwards, they used a higher cruising speed when returning home. Whether it is an aircraft carrier or a battleship, the wear and tear of the mechanical parts on the ship is very strict. The bottom of the ship was a garden for aquatic shellfish even earlier.

After this fleet returns, it will inevitably enter the dock for maintenance and repair, and there are only a few port shipyards on the west coast of the United States that are suitable for the maintenance of the Grand Fleet, and the most suitable one is San Francisco.

And Li Huamei knew very well that Fletcher's sneak attack was a "political action" rather than a "military operation" that violated military laws. It is inseparable from the word "show". At the operational meeting before leaving Pearl Harbor, Li Huamei told Commander Isoroku Yamamoto of the Combined Fleet when formulating the operational plan, asking him to pay attention to the movements of the US president in the next month, and at the same time to seek intelligence support from Germany.

On 22 April, US President John Dewey flew from Washington to San Francisco on the west coast to inspect this information, and this information was not kept secret at all, and the Japanese Combined Fleet, which was cruising about 1,000 kilometers southwest of San Francisco, immediately sailed for the port of San Francisco at full speed on the evening of 22 April.

Dewey arrived in San Francisco on the evening of 22 July, and inspected the construction of new ships at the local shipyard in the city on 23 July, and at this time the local authorities were already making great preparations for the "reception" of the returning US fleet, and the whole of San Francisco knew that the Fletcher fleet would arrive in San Francisco on 24 July, and the whole United States knew about it that night.

The whole of the United States knew about it, and the Japanese sneak attack fleet not far from San Francisco soon knew.

On the evening of 24 April, US President John Dewey held a reception in the Old Hill City Hall, where celebrities and celebrities from all walks of life were invited to enthusiastically present the meritorious men of Fletcher's fleet. Although at this time he had already known to the Chinese side about the tragic outcome of the B-25 plane group that had attacked Japan, out of the need to boost the morale of the people, the propaganda side of the other side still boasted that the bombing had been a perfect success -- but the Chinese side, out of the need to trap the Americans to death, and at the request of the US Government, did not stand up and stab the Americans' cowhides, but only claimed that the Chinese side had seized a total of 20 B25 planes that had "strayed" into Chinese territory and their related crew members.

On the night of the 24th, the sailors of the Fletcher fleet, which had been bustling on the sea for two whole years, all ran to the town hall to attend the president's reception, while most of the sailors ran to the shore to fool around. That night, business in the city's nightclubs and other sectors was booming, and tens of thousands of sailors who had been holding back for two months brought huge profits to the local tertiary industry.

On the night of Cunningham's attack on Osport during the Norse campaign, the Germans also held a large "religious ceremony" lighting show in Oslo. Before the start of the party, the German air defense forces were on high alert. Then the British did not take advantage of this time to sneak attack. It was not until after the party that the lights were controlled and the air defense department instinctively relaxed its spirit before launching a sneak attack. Despite the cheating of the ship's spirit at the time, the sneak attack was a tactical success, and the sneak attack aircraft successfully hit two torpedoes of the Scharnhorst.

And this time, the Americans made the same mistakes as the Germans made in the first place.

Although it had been bombed a few months earlier, not a single Japanese plane had flown over San Francisco, and night light control on the West Coast of the United States had gradually eased. And today is a "big day", with the president's permission, the lights out order in San Francisco that night lasted until twelve o'clock.

However, as of 12 o'clock, there was no "one in 100 percent" Japanese plane in the sky over San Francisco. The order began after 12 o'clock, and it was dark in San Francisco, and the hearts of the local air defense radar warning personnel were relaxed.

While most of the sailors of Fletcher's fleet were slacking off on the shore, the Japanese high-speed fleet, led by the Yamato, was rapidly approaching San Francisco in the open sea, about 500 kilometers from San Francisco.

In the combat conference room of the three aircraft carriers Musashi, Soryu, and Flying Dragon, the pilots who are about to attack are surrounding the sand table models made of sand and glue, making final preparations before the battle.

Before the war, the pilots of these Bat attack planes had already conducted night flight and attack training for half a year in order to sneak attack US ports at night, and each pilot had more than 500 hours of night flight time and more than 300 bomb dropping training times.

In order to ensure that one attack achieves the maximum effect. During this half-year training, Li Huamei specially ordered people to make model drawings of various major ports on the West Coast of the United States. And after the return of Fletcher's fleet during the day today, due to the opening of the port to the public, the location of its warships was clearly revealed to the welcoming public. The German intelligence officers in San Francisco soon sent a wireless telegram to the Japanese fleet thousands of kilometers away. The pilots of the Bat attack group that are about to attack are now also very clear about the berths of the US ships in the harbor.

The most precious piece of information that the Japanese received before the war was that because the Fletcher fleet had previously carried out a transoceanic expedition, their main warships, whether they were battleships, aircraft carriers, or cruisers accompanying escorts, did not have anti-torpedo nets attached to them. And just after returning to the old Golden Home Port, they had to deal with the president's "propaganda and show" activities, and they had to be busy disembarking for a carnival, and the ships of the whole fleet did not immediately hang down the anti-torpedo nets -- for the officers and men of the navy who had been on the aircraft carrier for more than 10,000 kilometers in two months, the nerves in their brains had collapsed for more than 60 days, and now they can finally relax and take a breath, and now they just want to rest lightly and put up anti-torpedo nets, and even if they think about it, they will postpone until tomorrow.

This is the fatal mistake. (To be continued......)

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