Although Roosevelt's words were not long, the meaning of his expression was obvious: he was dissatisfied with the step-by-step and restrained use of personnel by the top leaders of the army and navy, Admiral King was okay here, and basically the generals who could fight were entrusted with important tasks, but the army had many problems here, like this time, in order to balance, Marshall began to discuss seniority in the second batch of South American generals who selected reinforcements, which made Roosevelt dissatisfied, and what made him even more dissatisfied was the attitude of the army top brass towards Patton. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In Roosevelt's eyes, the African campaign was an out-and-out failure, and the only thing he admired among so many military generals was Patton, who thought that he showed rare blood and courage in the campaign, especially the fact that he gathered the remnants of the defeated army and walked all the way south to join the main force instead of waiting on the spot to surrender to the Germans in the distance, which deeply shocked Roosevelt, but unfortunately Patton was still admired as a hero when he returned home, but after a period of time, he was riddled with negative news: some media commented that he was simple and rude, bad-tempered, and often scolded recruits and middle and low-ranking officers. Occasionally, he had to do it, and after a while, other colleagues criticized him for going extreme and excessive in training, covering it with barbed wire fire, crawling forward in training Patton often used machine guns to simulate, most of them were empty cartridges, and occasionally used live ammunition, which scared a group of recruits enough to choke, and even shocked a group of defenders and fighters for democracy, but for this kind of criticism, Patton was indifferent, and even intensified his efforts to get the German MG42 machine gun for fire simulation, when the "snort" sound of tearing linen sounded, Everyone thought he was crazy.

For this kind of thing, Marshall wiped Patton's ass more than once, and in the end even he was a little annoyed, but then a bigger thing came out, when training the infantry unit to follow the tank impact, Patton asked the artillery on the opposite side to cover the training ground with artillery, although it was only a small and medium-caliber mortar and a 105mm howitzer, and it was still a training shell, but the artillery major refused to carry it out for fear of accidental injury, and as a result, he was whipped by Patton 2. Although the veterans all overwhelmingly expressed their support for Patton, Marshall, who was under pressure, had to announce that Patton would be suspended for inspection, and what is even more ironic is that because of Patton's qualifications and performance, he was just about to be promoted to lieutenant general, so the follow-up handling opinions of the military justice organs were also roughly determined, and Patton was promoted to lieutenant general and arranged for him to retire from active duty and turn into reserve.

Roosevelt's report on promotion to lieutenant general was readily approved, but the report on his transfer to the reserve was mercilessly rejected by him, and the instructions on it made the senior members of the Joint Staff Committee sweat profusely -- "Attention, this is an incident caused by a mid-ranking officer's disobedience to his superiors, and if he is on the battlefield, such disobedience can be shot on the spot!" ”

There is no doubt that the president's ass is sitting on Patton's side, and this kind of "politically incorrect" behavior that ignores public opinion and is not democratic would have been a cannonball for the opponent to attack during the election campaign, but now Roosevelt can no longer take care of it, he wants a general who can fight wars and has a tough style.

"Everyone in your unit can parachute?"

"Yes, if a division commander who is nearly 50 years old can parachute, there is no reason why others can't do it."

"What if a soldier is good at the movement but refuses to jump because he is afraid?"

"Simple, kick him in the ass, and he won't have that much chance to think about it in the air."

"Your soldiers are so brave?"

"Of course! The cowards were either kicked out of the ranks by me or waited to be taken out by the Germans. I think the former option is more beneficial to them. ”

In other words, Roosevelt had now begun to do whatever it took to win, and if the Purge would bring victory, he would not hesitate to do so, believing that the American people wanted a president who would bring victory, not a good gentleman who would follow the rules and follow the rules. The roar just now was nothing more than him taking advantage of the topic to play and spew out the words he wanted to say in such a grim moment with a deafening voice.

As for "at all costs" Yunyun, in fact, it is the extreme performance of victory first, and it is also the requirement of fighting the opponent, and the two are in the same vein. Since Roosevelt was a politician, and of course a hard-hearted task, how could he have any scruples about the loss of a few warships and several thousand troops? He had estimated today's losses when he made the decision to enter the war for the United States, and it would not be an unbearable price for him to take Cape Verde and give an account to all sides. Otherwise, Cape Verde has not been taken, the Anglo-Canadian route has not been opened, the Falkland Islands cannot be attacked, and the troops are busy with nothing, which will damage the long-term interests and national prestige.

The Atlantic Fleet sent back two plans: Admiral Ingersoll believed that the opportunity to lure the enemy had been lost, and the fleet itself had suffered serious losses, and that taking Cape Verde would not help change the American-German balance of power and the fundamental strategic situation in the Atlantic, so he suggested retreating. How to keep? Isn't it more ironic to not be able to hold on? The second plan was put forward by Turner, who believes that since so much has been paid, it is necessary to persevere to the end anyway, and now retreating is like cutting off the heavy stocks that have suffered heavy losses at the lowest point of the stock market, and the losses will certainly not expand again, but there will be no chance to reduce losses or even flip.

From the bottom of his heart, Admiral King agreed with Turner's opinion, but he did not expect the president's opinion to be more resolute than he was - to use the words of whatever it takes, he knew the meaning behind this sentence, it was not just about taking Cape Verde, the president must also ask for a period of time in the future, and then extend "at all costs" to the Falkland Islands and the Azores, in other words, Roosevelt's mentality changed, He has even called for victory despite the adverse impact of casualties on future re-election.

Everyone was silent, and after a long time, Arnold spoke: "There is an important situation that I don't have time to report, I just received news in the early morning, the army aviation has lost the tracking of the German fleet in the Azores air defense circle, we can't find them, and now the fleet has also dispatched reconnaissance planes to search around, but still nothing has been found, but there is a very strange information, the last time our reconnaissance planes found the enemy fleet was more than 300 kilometers west of the Azores...... I have never figured out what the Germans meant by arranging the fleet there. ”

After the fire, Roosevelt's mood calmed down a lot, and his thinking became more rational, and he asked in a deep voice: "If the German fleet has moved, where do you think it is likely to go?" Attacking the aircraft carrier fleet? Rescue Cape Verde? Or something else? ”

Everyone's eyes suddenly focused on Admiral Kim, this is a very important judgment of the enemy's situation, and no one can afford the consequences after making a mistake. The latter took a deep breath, thought for a few minutes, and then said: "Although the current information on the enemy situation is insufficient, based on my understanding of the Germans' consistent combat style and Hitler's grasp of nature, I personally judge that the German fleet is likely to go to Bermuda......"

"Bermuda ......" the others gasped.

"Are you sure to hold on?" Roosevelt immediately asked Marshall.

"I'm afraid it's difficult, now the island ......"

"I saw it last time, it was lost and surrendered in less than two days, it's all a bunch of rubbish!"

Although it was November weather, beads of sweat still rolled down Marshall's head, Roosevelt's accusation was very heavy, although he was clearly scolding the British, but there were still a lot of American troops on it, and it was really unreasonable to surrender in two days, and what was even worse was that a large number of supplies and relatively important heavy oil depots were left, which was simply intolerable. It's also embarrassing to think about it: how did the German army defend Cape Verde so well? Actually overturned half of its own battleships? The world is most afraid of people than people, originally he felt that it was completely normal to be unable to hold on, and there was nothing to blame, but now there is Cape Verde as a reference, and the gap between high and low is reflected at once.

Seeing that the top leaders of the army and navy were scolded badly, Li Hai stood up and played a round: "I'm afraid it's really not easy to defend, the German army in Cape Verde has been operating for nearly 9 months, and Bermuda has just fought not long ago, a large number of facilities and defense lines have been destroyed, material reserves are insufficient, and the fortifications are in urgent repair, so they can't be simply compared......"

Roosevelt nodded noncommittally, turned his head and asked Admiral King: "Didn't the front say that the Germans were capable of submarines and torpedo boats?" Torpedo boats and submarines are not high-tech, the United States also has them, and they can prepare more, can you find a way to transfer 100 torpedo boats and 30 submarines to the vicinity of Bermuda, if the German fleet really comes to attack twice, can you learn from the German army to fight it? I don't ask you to sink 4 battleships, 2, even 1 I think it's pretty good......"

Admiral Jin's face twitched for a while, and then subconsciously replied: "I will deploy immediately, and we will do our best not to disappoint you." ”

Roosevelt gave another order to Marshall: "Let us add some troops to the island, we must hold on to this vital strategic island, and we must not easily fall into the hands of the enemy, and we must not let the enemy get this pistol aimed at the east coast." ”

Everyone nodded, and Marshall said that he would reinforce 2 regiments, and no matter how many troops he could, he couldn't put it up.

"Who are you going to use this time?"

"How's Maxwell D. Taylor?"

"The name is kind of familiar."

"He was originally Li Qiwei's chief of staff, and after Matthew served as the commander of the 18th Airborne Army, he recommended him to take over as the commander of the 82nd Airborne Division.

"82 Airborne Division again?" Roosevelt couldn't help frowning, "They have just suffered serious losses, and will they be able to fight again soon?" With so many troops in the United States, do you always use the 82nd Airborne Division to fight? ”

Marshall blushed for a while, Roosevelt's accusation was justified, but for him, there was not much choice in practice, he weighed his words, and explained Roosevelt and the others in detail...... (To be continued.) )