"Has the Army Air Force dispatched a group of bombers?"

"It's out, but I'm afraid it won't work very well. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" The aviation staff officer sighed, "The front line is more than 800 kilometers from the airport in El Salvador, and the P-47 does not have enough range, generally the P-51 covers the bomber group to go to the air attack, and occasionally the P-51 also performs the ground attack mission alone. Although our army has a large number of aircraft, it is difficult for German fighters to entangle, their combat effectiveness is not weak, and the distance is only more than 400 kilometers, which is nearly half that of us. In particular, the Fw-190s for ground attack were deployed more forward, with at least three air strikes a day, and the army aviation had lost more than 100 aircraft during this time. ”

Smith sighed: "It's nothing, the most annoying one was when the Germans shot down 4 A-51s with P-26 in one go." ”

"Germans? P-51？ Nimitz was surprised, "What's going on?" ”

"After the German occupation of Rio, more than 50 Chinese planes that had time to fly away in the future, including P-47, P-51, B-25 and other models, and after an air raid, two German P-51s covered the return of the aircraft group at the end of the formation...... "The aviation staff officer smiled bitterly, "The cunning Germans kept our army livery intact, and killed them in the middle of the way, shot down 4 A-26s of our army in one breath and then fled." ”

"How can such a thing happen?"

"Anyway, after the German landing in Rio, everything did not go well for our army, first the South American Army Command was terminated, and then a division was crushed, and the army aviation planes stationed in Rio were either blown up or captured by the Germans, and only a very small number of them fled urgently. The 442nd Regiment, which had just made a contribution and held the forward defensive line, was routed again, and General Clarke's battle was lost in half before it was fought. "The morale of the Army has been very low lately, and it is no wonder that they are not willing to use the method of surprise attack or landing behind enemy lines, and are only willing to use the stupidest and most stupid method of successive advances to fight a war of attrition with the enemy." ”

"But George's troops have not yet arrived, the German offensive has already begun, and I am afraid that we will soon be asked for help."

Sure enough, as soon as the words fell, someone sent a telegram: "Victoria, the capital of Espírito Santo, is occupied by the Germans!" General Clark urgently asked for help, hoping that we could send warships south quickly and use naval guns to assist the Army in holding the second line of defense and preventing the Germans from continuing to advance north. ”

This was almost expected, Victoria was only more than 40 kilometers away from the defense line held by the 442nd Regiment and was connected by road, and in the absence of a follow-up echelon defense, the Germans took advantage of the situation to seize the territory with a direct rush. Instead of allowing his troops to advance further, Sauken beckoned Montero's Brazilian army to settle in the city, while he himself moved his main force into the deep hilly terrain - who knows if the Yankees' naval guns would suddenly sweep over.

Nimitz looked at the map, Victoria is a port city, and the shelling can be done completely, but when he thinks of the Luftwaffe's land-based attack aircraft, he can't go there with great fanfare, and if he wants to shell, he can only choose the night.

"Is there a reliable line of defense for our army ahead?"

"The army has arranged a second line of defense along the Doshi River and the city of Linaris, with two regiments, plus the troops retreating from the first line, there may be 7,000-8,000 troops, but this line of defense is much wider than the first line, and the possibility of defending it is even lower, if the Germans continue to maintain this offensive momentum, I am afraid that they will still not be able to hold it." Smith said, "Let the fleet go south, anyway, we were going south to find the German fleet, and if the shelling of the German army was successful, maybe we could lure the German fleet out." ”

Nimitz shook his head: "At best, the naval guns only have an effective range of 20 kilometers, and they can't block the main line of defense, and the enemy will be fine as long as they dodge in depth, and I hope the Germans will fight the second line of defense." ”

Smith had been staring at the map just now, and raised his head in amazement when he heard this: "Do you want to go to Victoria or Rio City to land and copy the German army's rear route?" ”

"No, I want to land in Santos!" Nimitz looked at the map again, "Let the USS New Jersey lead 2 cruisers, 2 escort aircraft carriers, and 8 destroyers to cooperate with the transport fleet to cover, and then carry out the artillery cover mission." I promised Marshall to keep George on the New Jersey and not let him take risks, and the New Jersey was withdrawn from the main fleet and changed to the flagship of the transport fleet, and Hewitt's command was transferred to it. ”

"However, I heard that the two ......"

"The enemy is now, there is no heart to care about these anymore, George and Hewitt must learn to cooperate!" Nimitz accentuated his tone, "If the army and navy are not united, not to mention Brazil, the entire United States will be doomed." ”

"Understood."

"As for us, let's go south first to find the enemy's main fleet, and hope that our luck will be a little better."

That night, George Patton, who had been basking in the sun in Venezuela for most of the year, finally arrived at the front-line theater and set up his capable Fifth Army headquarters on the New Jersey.

But when they saw him, he breathed a sigh of relief, and Barton was friendly, and first pounced on Hewitt and gave Hewitt a big bear hug—a little not very solemn, but the atmosphere was very warm.

"It's a good feeling to see an old friend, and the two of us are really close." Barton listed his relationship with Hewitt in a number of treasures: "We have been together since the preparation of Operation Torch, we have been together since we lost the Horn of Africa, we fled in embarrassment, we fought with the Germans in Kenya and we were together again, and we were still together when we finally couldn't resist escaping and returned home......

Listening to his revelations were a series of failures, although they were all facts, Hewitt's face couldn't help but twitch - wouldn't this guy pick up some nice things to say?

"But this time it's different, this time we're going to beat the Germans hard and avenge the dead brethren." Patton touched his head and said with some embarrassment, "I won't make trouble for you this time, we will fight as much as you say, as long as the navy can safely send us ashore, it will be up to us next!" ”

This sentence gesture is very sufficient, especially from the mouth of a not very modest person like Patton, Hewitt of course could not be indifferent, and hurriedly said: "George, I will work with you, we are all for America and victory!" ”

"Great! Patton hurriedly asked, "When will we set off to beat the Germans, I can't wait to see the big scene of 406mm naval guns firing." ”

"Wait?" Hewitt was taken aback, "Your troops just flew to El Salvador today, and they will be ready to go into battle soon?" Even if you can, at least you have to board the ship, right? It would be nice to be able to leave early in the morning the day after tomorrow. ”

"No, no, no, they're all right, they can rest on the boat, these guys have been basking in the sun in Venezuela for more than half a year, and they are all screaming when they hold their energy." Patton winked at Hewitt, "You know that the girls in Venezuela are all fascinated by the lives of the boys of the 1st Red Division and the 1st Cavalry Division...... Look at General Roosevelt, he's in a second spring! ”

Venezuela is the largest beautiful country in South America, and the country with the most Miss Universe and Miss World in later generations. Patton led the troops in another way, and when he was training, he would die when he was going to die, but when he was relaxed, he didn't care about these things - he just didn't mess around with it himself, anyway.

Sure enough, the dog can't spit out ivory in his mouth! Hewitt thought indignantly that he had already blushed when he looked at Brigadier General Roosevelt Jr., who was ridiculed-who knew the truth or falsehood of Patton's words, but even if it was true, Roosevelt Jr. couldn't say anything about such an unobtrusive boss.

Embarrassment to embarrassment, Roosevelt Jr. did not have a seizure, but explained: "The commander means that the transport fleet can wait for the morning after tomorrow before departing, can we bring a few powerful warships to support the front line first?" After a long time, he was afraid that the troops would not be able to hold it! ”

This is also a reason, Hewitt nodded: "Then I will send 2 cruisers, 2 escort aircraft carriers and 4 destroyers to carry out ground cover first." We still waited for the army to finish boarding the ship before setting off -- it was still difficult for the four regiments to complete the boarding and matching of supplies and equipment in one day and one night. ”

"Could you please stay here and join Commodore Roosevelt in directing the troops to board the ship? I went to support on a cruiser? ”

"No way!" Hewitt shook his head like a rattle, "General Marshall, Admiral King, and Nimitz have sent a telegram clearly stating that you must stay with me and not leave the New Jersey!" ”

If it was another general, Hewitt might have agreed, but he would never dare to let Patton go, what if the latter forcibly commanded the captain to do this on the cruiser?

Barton was bored, so he could only give up stupidly, and finally found a step for himself: "Then it's always okay to send my confidential staff officer, I'm still with you, inseparable, just treat me as your adjutant." ”

The first half of the sentence is okay, but the second half of the sentence almost makes Hewitt half angry: everyone knows that Patton was an adjutant to Pershing, and this great god is something that even Marshall has to look up to, how can hehewitt dare to let Patton be an adjutant? Can the land-sea relationship be good? But he couldn't attack directly, otherwise Barton would have found another excuse to go to the front, so he had an idea to think of a solution: "Look, you are about to organize a landing behind enemy lines, and you are not familiar with the hydrological situation of the ports in Brazil, right?" I have here a full set of information on the main ports of Brazil, and you can study it in the headquarters in a moment and consider how to land to reduce casualties. I'm going to review the loading and unloading of the ships now, so I won't accompany you for now......"

"You're busy, you're busy......"

Watching Hewitt get off the ship, Barton behind him turned around and grimaced at everyone, and pointed at Hewitt's back again, seeing that a large group of army and navy staff officers in the commander tower wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, so they had to endure it with all their might.

Roosevelt Jr. was accustomed to his kind of living treasure behavior, so he could only shake his head helplessly.