After listening to Roosevelt's explanation, Hawkins immediately understood that Roosevelt was planning for the post-war period. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hawkins looked at Roosevelt with admiration in his eyes, the first American ever to become president with a disability, whose righteous perseverance and extraordinary wisdom led the United States to become the world's most powerful country.

I only heard Roosevelt say: "China, as a big country with 5,000 years of civilization and has never broken its inheritance, now is its weakest time, it has the largest market in the world, the largest population, vast land, almost blank industry, if such a country falls to our United States of America, can you imagine how much benefit we can get?"

And we, the United States of America, will certainly be opposed to the Soviet Union after the war, and if we can support China and make it our spokesman in Asia, the benefits to the United States will be almost undoubted, and what we are paying now is simply insignificant compared to this goal. ”

Listening to Roosevelt talking about everything, the more Hawkins listened, the more he admired, no wonder people can mix with the president, and he can only be a staff member, this vision is different.

But after hearing this, Hawkins also asked a question.

"Mr. President, I understand what you mean, what we have to do now is to invest in advance, but then again, just now we said that the Huaxia general is short of supplies, how can we transport the materials to him? You must know that although we won the battle at Midway, Asia is still the territory of the Japanese! We simply don't have the strength to deliver supplies to him. ”

"We don't have to send supplies to him."

Roosevelt spat out a smoke ring and said lightly: "If the supplies are for that young man, what we have to do is to contain the combined fleet of the Japanese and prevent them from transferring the fleet to China on a large scale......"

The news of the sudden attack of the Soviet and Jin forces in the northeast not only alarmed the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, but also shocked the Japanese government.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Umezu Mijiro has just sent an urgent telegram, the Third Army of China has just launched an attack on Manchuria, the Second Air Force under the Kwantung Army was ordered to take off urgently to bomb the newly landed China fleet, but it was intercepted by the opponent's fighters and blocked by anti-aircraft fire, the Second Air Force had to retreat after losing more than 200 fighters, and now the China Army is marching towards Jinzhou, and Umezu Mijiro is directing the troops to carry out emergency interceptions while also calling us, What do you think about the request for the Imperial to send a fleet to cut off the sea transportation routes of the Chinese people in response to the counterattack of the Kwantung Army? ”

Hearing this, everyone's eyes were on the new Admiral Shigetaro, the new Minister of the Navy.

Shigetaro Shimada is a newly promoted naval upstart after Hideki Tojo took office, and he has no opinions and has always been known for being conservative. Seeing that everyone was looking at him now, he hesitated for a moment before saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, the combined fleet of the Empire in the Battle of Midway has just been defeated, and now the main task of the navy is to lay a new line of defense in the Pacific Ocean to stop the invasion of the Americans. I have heard that the fleet of the Third Army in China has now been greatly strengthened, and they have not only added four new escort aircraft carriers, but also several new destroyers and submarines, and if we want to cut off the sea passage of the Chinese people, we will have to mobilize more fleets to Asia, so that our defense line in the Pacific will be greatly weakened, and once the Americans start a counteroffensive in the Pacific, we will not be able to compete with them at all. ”

Shigetaro's actions aroused the dissatisfaction of Chief of Staff Sugiyama Moto, who saw him glaring and shouting: "Shimada-kun, do you mean that the navy doesn't care about the affairs of the army, and allows the Shina fleet to shuttle back and forth along the coast of Shina to deliver supplies to the Third Army of China, which is attacking Manchuria?" ”

Shigetaro Shimada shook his head and said: "That's not it, I don't think we need to send the main force of the Combined Fleet to stop the transport fleet of the China people, we can learn from the German Navy and send a group of submarines to attack the China people's transport fleet, so that the sea supply of the China people will naturally be in vain!" ”

"Smack!"

The furious Sugiyama Motoichi slapped the table and made a crisp sound, only to see him stand up and shout angrily: "You coward, you actually came up with such a ridiculous idea to let the submarines replace the main fleet to block the coast of China, do you want to give these submarines to the people of China to blow up?" ”

The furious Sugiyama Moto, as well as all the army generals, glared at Shigetaro Shimada, and not only the army generals, but also many people in the navy secretly frowned. It is important to know that Japan's naval combat thinking is completely different from that of Germany, and in the eyes of the resource-poor Japan itself, it is a cowardly act to attack the opponent's cargo ship with a submarine and send all the precious materials into the sea, which is to be condemned. This cannot help but be reflected in the ideology, but also in the rules and regulations of the navy.

The military regulations of the Japanese Navy stipulate that after the war, the rank of a colonel-level officer can be directly promoted by one level if a local aircraft carrier is sunk, and an officer of the lieutenant rank can even be promoted by two ranks, and there will also be rewards for sinking the opponent's battleships, cruisers, and destroyers. However, it is surprising that the Japanese navy did not give any reward to the ships and sailors who sank the local freighters and merchant ships, which also made the Japanese navy have no interest in attacking the merchant ships and freighters in the area, and even if a merchant ship passed over the head of the submarine, the submarine commander would not waste precious torpedoes to attack it. Because of this, when Admiral Shigetaro Shimada proposed to attack the troop carriers and freighters of the Chinese Navy with submarines, he was invariably met with hostility and contempt from his colleagues.

I saw Sugiyama Gen say coldly: "Shimada-kun, if you don't want to transfer the combined fleet to blockade the China Sea area, please make it clear, there is no need to come up with such a bad idea." ”

"Bad idea? You think I have a bad idea? Shigetaro Shigetaro was so angry that his face turned blue, and he sneered and said to Sugiyama Moto: "Okay...... Since you said that I had a bad idea, then I would like to ask Sugiyama-kun to come up with an idea that is not so bad. I remember that in the 12th year of Showa, Sugiyama-kun seemed to have said that it would only take three months to solve the Shina incident, and now five years have passed, I wonder if Sugiyama-kun conquered Shina? ”

"What did you say?" Sugiyama was furious, stood up and pointed at Shigetaro Shimada and shouted, "Are you laughing at me?" ”

"Don't dare!" Shigetaro Shimada said sarcastically: "Sugiyama-kun is now the chief of staff, how dare I, the Minister of the Navy, laugh at you!" ”

"Yaga Yalu!" Sugiyama was trembling with anger, pointing at Shitaro Shimada's left hand and trembling uncontrollably.

Suddenly, Sugiyama Moto pulled out the saber on his waist, and shouted angrily at Shigetaro: "Shigetaro Shimada, you come out, I want to duel with you!" ”

"You think I'm afraid you'll not make it?" Shigetaro Shimada was also angry, stood up and drew his saber at his waist, and the two glared at each other like fighting cocks, seeing that a brawl was about to take place.

And the people next to them also woke up from their stunned eyes, if they really staged an all-martial arts here today, the joke would be big. The news that the chief of staff of the highest military council of the Dainichihonto Empire actually dueled with the Minister of the Navy is expected to make Nikmoto a laughing stock all over the world.

Thinking of this, a group of people hurriedly rushed forward and hugged the two who were ready to fight, and then separated the two with their hands and feet.

When such a thing happened, the military meeting naturally could not be held. Hideki Tojo, who was presiding over the meeting, had no choice but to adjourn the meeting for the time being, waiting until both sides had calmed down.

After an hour, both sides calmed down a lot. Under the mutual compromise between the two sides, the navy agreed to send a huge fleet consisting of three aircraft carriers, two battleships, four cruisers, and twelve destroyers to the Huaxia Navy for reinforcements. (To be continued.) )