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"The Joint Staff will let us continue to cover the army's attack on Cape Verde, send the other two regiments to the island as soon as possible, and take it at all costs!"

After listening to the confidential staff officer's report, Ingersoll was stunned: "At all costs? One regiment of the Army has been scrapped! ”

"So we have to let the other 2 regiments hold on, and then we can also use the 3rd Division of the Army...... This is an order from the president himself. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Based on the information and tone of the telegram, Turner immediately guessed that something must have happened to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"And what about the German fleet? With our current strength, we can't defeat the main German fleet. ”

"Washington tells us not to worry, they will fight the Germans in Bermuda."

"Are you sure they're going to Bermuda?"

"There is no definite evidence, but the Germans made an emergency broadcast threatening to attack the east coast, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff guessed that they had fled to Bermuda." "I think the Germans want to relieve the siege of Cape Verde, but they don't want to fight us once, so they use this method to force us to withdraw our ......troops," Turner analyzed.

"Damn it, then keep fighting." Ingersoll cursed repeatedly, it is definitely not a good idea to go back and save Bermuda now, not to mention that the fleet is scarred and can't fight a hard battle at all, even if it wants to fight, it can't be fought in the battlefield designated by the Germans, it's too passive.

Major General MacDonald, commander of the 5th Division, also received a telegram from Marshall, in a stern tone, telling him to conquer Sal Island, otherwise the situation would not be good! The specific telegram was not written, but MacDonald thought it was a serious sign that if he couldn't do it, his future would be really bad. So he made an impassioned speech to his men, and landed with a second regiment, ready to fight the rest of the battle himself.

In the afternoon, the US troops, which had been supplemented by fresh blood, continued to attack the Germans with companies and battalions as units, and the intensity of the offensive and the fiery firepower were dizzying, and the navy sent a large number of light warships to the vicinity to shell the army and cooperate with the army offensive. From 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., the U.S. forces launched four rounds of attacks in a row, advancing step by step, and nearly doubling the size of the beachhead.

"Sir, didn't you say that the U.S. military suffered a lot of losses last night? Why are Americans fighting so hard today? A subordinate asked Link puzzled.

"Yesterday's losses of the American army were undoubted, didn't you notice that the frequency of heavy artillery coverage of the enemy's battleships has decreased a lot?" Link sneered, "As for the American troops who fought and died with us today, they are not yesterday's troops, they are new new forces, and it is estimated that the regiment yesterday has been disabled." ”

"When will our reinforcements come, if we continue to fight like this, sooner or later we will be overwhelmed by the Americans with crowd tactics."

"The Führer is still figuring out a way, he won't leave us alone, didn't there be a submarine to support yesterday? We're going to hold our ground and tell the brethren to fight hard and see how many Americans can die! ”

At the moment when the two armies of Cape Verde and Germany were fighting continuously, the main force of the Axis Fleet had sailed to a place about 1,000 nautical miles away from Bermuda, and Machar was concerned about the battle situation in Cape Verde, and when he heard that the S-boat and submarine forces had joined forces to kill several American warships, he was obviously very happy and said to Ozawa with great interest: "If the report is true, it means that in the field of battleships, our German-Italian Axis fleet not only overwhelms the opponent in terms of quality, but also outweighs the opponent in quantity. The Axis Navy has completely overwhelmed its opponents, and it is time for a decisive battle. ”

Relatively speaking, the Axis and the Alliance's estimation of each other's capital ships is relatively accurate, the number of active battleships owned by Britain and the United States after Cape Verde has dropped to 6, including 2 South Dakota-class, 2 Iowa-class and 2 George V-class, the number of active battleships owned by the Axis of the Three Kingdoms is much more, with a total of more than 14, the German and Italian side has 4 Veneto-class, Tirpitz, Richelieu, Strasbourg and 2 Scharnhorst-class, and the Japanese side has 2 Yamato-class, Nagato and 2 Kongo-class, In addition to the relatively old King Kong class, the rest of the combat power is good, in the World War I era of giant ship artillery, if this lineup is pulled out to fight a battleship decisive battle, the probability of axis failure is less than 1%.

However, this advantage period was very short-lived, and the Axis could still serve 1 Yamato-class (Shinano) in the next year, and there were no other battleships in service in addition, and there were no battleships in service permanently - Germany and Italy had long ceased the strategy of building battleships, and the outline of Japan's new ship building plan was also sent to Berlin by Kohl, and the construction of new battleships was also stopped, and the Axis could not add additional battleships in the future.

This is not the case with the Alliance, which will be able to enter service in the next year with 2 Iowa-class, 2 Lion-class and 1 Avant-garde-class, and in 1945 it is expected that there will be 2 Iowa-class, a total of 7 relatively modern battleships in service. Except for the USS Wisconsin and the USS Missouri (both of which are of the Iowa class), the remaining five warships were not built in World War II, and this time and space was greatly lost in the naval battle between Britain and the United States in the early stage, and the resources were strengthened, and it was expected to be basically completed by the end of 1945.

Due to the stimulation of the Japanese super battleships, the United States drew up a plan to build 8 Montana class and 1 additional Iowa class, 4 Montana and 1 Iowa class in 1943, and another 4 Montana class in 1944, these warships were expected to be commissioned from September 1946 onwards and completed by 1948. In addition to knowing the news that the United States is continuing to build new battleships, the specific number of ships to be built and the level of performance of the German intelligence agencies do not know, but Hoffman knows the term Montana-class, and he estimates the number at 4 ships -- he never imagined that the frenzied US imperialists would ship 8 ships in one go!

If the United States dragged the war to this point, the situation would obviously not be favorable, and even if the four Montana class ships were calculated, the British and American battleship forces would be stronger than the Axis. However, Hoffman's attitude toward stopping the development of battleships is resolute; first, the trend of aircraft carriers becoming the mainstream of the navy will not waver; second, after nuclear bombs are formed and installed in large quantities, engaging in large-scale fleet battles is also seeking death.

However, the moment of the outbreak of this new technological revolution and new war situation is not up to the parties themselves, and even if the German superbomb can be completed almost at the same time as the United States, in the short term, it will be mostly intimidating and does not have the ability to fight in real combat, so the combination of forward-looking, directional, and realistic is very subtle -- this subtlety can be understood by no one except the traverser himself.

Ozawa nodded in agreement: "Originally, I thought that the battleships were outdated, but due to the innovative use of super battleship operations by Chief Horikichi and the outstanding performance of battleships in recent battles, I found that they still have a high value in operations, especially in the Atlantic direction. It is a pity that neither Germany nor Japan can afford to maintain both a huge battleship construction program and a sufficient number of aircraft carriers, so they can only choose more important parts for construction, and now Britain and the United States have lost several battleships, which, although old, are still very important to us. ”

But he soon took a turn for the worse: "But I think the large-scale naval showdown you are expecting may not happen, because of the balance of forces, because of the change in the mode of operation, and for other political reasons." ”

Ozawa's words mean that in terms of air power, the number of aircraft carriers now mastered by Axis also exceeds that of Britain and the United States, and it is also stronger than its opponents in terms of the quality of troops and aircraft performance, but the United States' desperate efforts to build the Essex-class make Hoffman and the top of the Navy very worried, and the intelligence agencies have gathered information that the United States has a plan to prepare to start construction of 18-20 Essex-class ships per year, and also intends to build 60-80 escort aircraft carriers. Japan's new shipbuilding plan also proposes to build 8-10 fleet aircraft carriers every year. However, comparing the two shipbuilding plans, Hoffman believes that the United States is more likely to be able to achieve it, because he has obtained the Japanese Army's dedication to developing mecha forces from another source, and he does not think that Japan has the ability and resources to support such a huge shipbuilding program.

Hoffman believed that after the promotion of the Axis class, the strength of Europe and Japan in shipbuilding would be able to overwhelm Britain and the United States, but this moment was not easy to grasp, and it could be sooner or later. The more critical problem was that the Axis Navy was scattered between Germany and Italy and Japan, and Horiyoshi was now troubled and his future was uncertain.

If Britain and the United States had a strong confidence in their own strength and subsequent development, they would not have fought the decisive battle that the Axis had hoped for now - otherwise, the Battle of Cape Verde would not have taken place, and the British and American navies would have been able to attack the Azores, and the main German fleet would have to respond.

Cranke interjected on the side: "Although it may not be possible to promote a decisive decisive battle, I think that large-scale engagements must be carried out as soon as possible, our army's advantage in aircraft performance may not last too long, the new F6F-5 carrier-based fighter is slightly superior to the BF-219C, and our next generation of carrier-based fighters has not yet been determined, although we still have a significant advantage in attack aircraft, but the impact of the backwardness of the fighter link is all-round......"

"Then there is a risk that the strategy of going to Bermuda will be problematic...... What if, I mean, what if......," said Mashal, "we have successfully attacked Bermuda and occupied it, but the British and Americans have not sent reinforcements -- just as they have fought Cape Verde and we have no reinforcements, but only land and sea and we have to attrition? ”

Ozawa and Cranke looked at each other and smiled wryly - this is very likely to happen! For a while, the three of them fell into silence in unison, thinking hard about the way out.

At this moment, the solemn atmosphere was interrupted by a loud report from the confidential staff officer: "A call from Berlin, the highest top secret, please take a look!" ”

Mashal glanced at it hurriedly, first thoughtfully, then almost jumped up from the ground in excitement, and cheered from the bottom of his heart: "How wise, so wonderful!" Long live the Führer! (To be continued.) )