Chapter 2 Finding a New Way
Unlike Angela's reaction, most of the British cabinet members did not believe the news after receiving the telegram sent back by Sir James, but the source of the news was Zhuo Fei, so the British cabinet members had to be careful. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoSudan has oil, which is of little use to the British mainland in the face of a dire situation, but if this news is true, it is good news for the coalition forces that have landed on the African continent, at least in a few months there will be no shortage of fuel for the coalition forces.
"Zhuo, why is this happening?" Zhuo Fei had just sent a heavily protected exploration team into Sudan, when MacArthur, who was supposed to be commanding the war in the Philippines in Southeast Asia, suddenly appeared at the forward base in Somalia. If you want to talk about the ability of tsundere, the number one in the world is the British, and MacArthur's tsundere degree is far greater than that of the British, which Zhuo Fei already knew when he first met MacArthur.
MacArthur's question was very simple, but Zhuo Fei understood what the other party meant by this question, and after signaling the others around him to disperse with his eyes, Zhuo Fei replied to MacArthur with a smile, "Since our umbrella transferred troops to the north, has the Japanese army sent a single soldier to the Philippine battlefield?" The Umbrella promised the White House that the mission was to help your coalition forces contain the Japanese army, didn't our Umbrella do that? In addition, our umbrella also sent a temporary fleet to the Philippine battlefield to help in the war. ”
Zhuo Fei's answer is obviously an explanation, but in fact it is dissatisfied with MacArthur, the Philippine counteroffensive has been going on for more than three months, but the US-Australian coalition forces commanded by MacArthur are still fighting on the periphery with the Japanese army commanded by Yamashita Fengfumi, so Zhuo Fei cannot help but express dissatisfaction with MacArthur. Zhuo Fei's answer made MacArthur speechless for a while, and he wanted to say that if the Umbrella troops on the Korean Peninsula continued to fight the Japanese army, the pressure on his side might be greatly reduced, but he knew that he could not say that.
"General, the truce between us and the Japanese army is because the umbrella does not have the ability to continue fighting the Japanese army on the Korean Peninsula. The Japanese army has more than 500,000 troops on the Korean Peninsula, most of whom are veterans from the northeast and far southeast, and our umbrella has only one army on the Korean Peninsula. ”
Zhuo Fei's words made MacArthur speechless again, he was originally going to blame the other party as soon as he saw Zhuo Fei, but what he didn't expect was that Zhuo Fei had to dispel this idea with just a few words. "But you can't stop fighting with the damned Japanese, once the Japanese withdraw their troops on the Korean Peninsula, the Filipino Japanese will get reinforcements from them." As soon as MacArthur's words came out, Zhuo Fei couldn't help rolling his eyes, and said in his heart how this product got mixed up in the US military.
"General, it wasn't because of our armistice with the Japanese army on the Korean Peninsula that the Japanese army in the Philippines received reinforcements. Since we went north, the Japanese have increased the speed of recruiting new soldiers on their own soil, and they can throw more than ten divisions of troops to the Philippine battlefield at any time if the Japanese want to. Zhuo Fei only said half of what he said, and the remaining half that was not said was dissatisfaction and accusations against MacArthur.
Zhuo Fei has always believed that if the US-Australian coalition forces commanded by MacArthur had not been procrastinating, and if the US-Australian coalition forces had broken through the outer positions and defensive lines of the Japanese army in the Philippines as soon as possible, perhaps the war in the Philippines would not have been as bad as it is now. What's more, before the US-Australian coalition attacked, the umbrella also supported more than 100,000 South Asian servant troops to help in the war, in addition, MacArthur also had the help of the Jewish Independence Army, in terms of comprehensive combat strength, the coalition army commanded by MacArthur had already been stronger than the Philippine Japanese army commanded by Yamashita Fufumi.
Originally, he came to accuse Zhuo Fei, but he didn't expect to be refuted by the other party, MacArthur's arrogant personality made him unable to accept such a situation, and after meeting Sir James who rushed to hear the news, MacArthur finally found a place to attack Zhuo Fei. "That's right, the Umbrella is currently being hired by the British government to help the British fight the Germans in North Africa." Zhuo Fei did not avoid MacArthur's gaze, but replied calmly.
"As for our forward base in Somalia, if nothing else, this base will remain in place until our lease expires." Knowing that the Umbrella had obtained the qualification to establish a permanent military base in Somalia, MacArthur wanted to say that the Umbrella was in cahoots with the British, but Zhuo Fei answered his question calmly and truthfully, and had no intention of hiding it from himself.
Zhuo Fei's lack of concealment made MacArthur lose the opportunity to accuse Zhuo Fei again, and at the same time, Zhuo Fei also said that this was the reward given by the British government to the protective umbrella, "Your Excellency, if the US government can agree to sell Mindanao to our protective umbrella, I will not only immediately order the Dangkou army deployed on the Korean Peninsula to go south to the Philippines to help in the war, but also promote the possibility of forming an alliance with the Chinese army to go to the American continent to help in the war." Zhuo Fei chuckled slightly at the corner of his mouth, and looked at MacArthur with a smile in his eyes.
"Our umbrella was originally an interest group, we are mercenaries, we don't have enough interests, we will not pay for free, this is very clear to the British government, so they not only granted me the title of duke, but also gave me the title of hereditary governor of Nanyang. There is an old saying in China that if you want a horse to run fast, you must first fill the belly of the horse, and I want to say that if you want us to protect the umbrella, you must come up with enough benefits to make us happy, otherwise everything will be in vain. ”
Zhuo Fei's words made MacArthur speechless, but Sir James, who was watching from the sidelines, nodded again and again, because Zhuo Fei had also said such things to him, and Sir James did not think that there was anything wrong with Zhuo Fei saying this. "Zhuo, I can try to report this to the White House, but I can't guarantee that the White House will agree to sell Mindanao to you, but I hope that your umbrella will continue to support the coalition forces to get the Philippines back." MacArthur didn't dare to make a clear guarantee to Zhuo Fei, so he could only release his goodwill vaguely first.
"Zhuo, it seems that the Americans are in a very bad situation." Sir James was also an old fox who was about to become a master, and just by looking at MacArthur's expression when he left, he had already guessed that MacArthur had other purposes for coming in person.
Sir James's words made Zhuo Fei nod his head with deep sympathy, "That's right, we just got the news from the United States, the Japanese have increased the speed and scale of sending troops to the American continent, and most of them are elite troops withdrawn from the Chinese battlefield and the Korean Peninsula. The situation on the U.S. mainland has deteriorated further, and with the Mexican army taking advantage of the fire, according to our analysis, nearly 40 percent of the front-line troops sent by the Americans into the war zone have suffered casualties. ”
Zhuo Fei's new information made Sir James's first reaction was to gasp, there were forty percent casualties among the front-line troops, which was almost equivalent to the Americans' front-line troops were about to be unable to hold on, not to mention that the crazy Japanese had increased their troops to the Americas. Zhuo Fei casually opened a map and explained to Sir James, "The current strength of the Japanese army on the Korean Peninsula is about 540,000, and the number of troops that have not been completely withdrawn in some places along the coast of China is about 300,000. ”
"On the Japanese mainland, the number of new troops is already close to one million, and if the Japanese army completely withdraws more than 300,000 troops from the coastal line of China and draws 200,000 troops from the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese will have at least 1.5 million reserve troops. As far as the current situation is concerned, the Japanese have shifted their war attention from Asia to the American continent, and if the Japanese make a desperate move to transfer all 1.5 million troops to the American continent, the total number of Japanese troops that the Americans will face will exceed 2.4 million, and I think the Americans will face the most tragic battle in history. ”
Zhuo Fei's analysis made James dumbfounded, the Americans were about to face the attack of 2.4 million Japanese troops on their homeland, which had already exceeded Sir James's imagination, and he couldn't imagine what the overwhelming battle formation of 2.4 million Japanese troops would be. "Zhuo, absolutely not, can't. If the Americans could not withstand the frenzied attack of the Japanese, the Reich would not be able to obtain the support and assistance of the Americans, and we alone would not be able to defeat the Germans. Sir James was already extremely nervous at this time, and he grabbed Zhuo Fei's sleeve tightly and shook it vigorously.
Zhuo Fei forcibly suppressed a smile in his heart, "Sir, don't worry, don't forget that we have one of our biggest allies. Sir James followed the pause of Zhuo Fei's finger on the map. That's right, it's China, although China has also declared an armistice with the Japanese, but you must not forget that China and Japan have a feud, and they will never eliminate the hatred so easily. China has more than 3 million troops, half of which are veterans of the battlefield, and if we equip them with our new weapons and enough new equipment, I think they will definitely be our best allies. ”
Zhuo Fei said so much to James, the original intention was to shift Sir James's attention to the domestic troops who had been idle, rather than watching them evolve from small-scale friction to melee, it was better to transfer them out of the country in the name of British and American employment, and it was better to die in the European battlefield than to die in the civil war. Zhuo Fei's suggestion piqued Sir James's interest, and an impatient Sir James rushed to the harbor to drag MacArthur back before he left, for he felt that the Americans seemed to be in need of reinforcements more than the British Empire.