More than 10 hours later, Roosevelt, who was 10,000 miles away, received a telegram from Lieutenant Colonel Crawford, head of the US observation mission stationed in China, in which he gave a detailed account of the battle situation and attached at the end of the report the losses of the Japanese fleet and the 1st Air Division. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Roosevelt looked at the row of yews outside the window, casually put the report on the table and slowly closed his eyes, the secretary Missy Lehand on the side saw this and came over with a blanket to put it on for him, but Roosevelt opened his eyes and looked at the secretary and chuckled: "Thank you Missy, I don't think I need this thing yet, you go and call John and them now!" ”

"Yes sir!" Missy Lehand smiled tactfully at Roosevelt, turned around and left the office lightly.

Soon, Vice Presidents John Nance Garner, Henry Wallace, Harry Truman, and Secretary of State Hull arrived in his office.

Looking at these American elites sitting on the sofa one after another, Roosevelt raised the telegram in his hand and shook it with a smile: "Gentlemen, the Japanese and the Chinese are fighting again, you might as well guess why this time?" Someone who guessed right, I'll invite him to my estate next week. ”

Seeing that their boss was in the mood to joke, as younger brothers, they naturally understood that Roosevelt must be in a good mood now, Vice President John shrugged his shoulders and said, "Mr. President, you didn't call us over to let us guess the riddle." God, this world is so hard, I didn't expect it to be so difficult for me, an old man in his seventies, to have a meal. ”

Henry also smiled on the side: "Don't worry, Mr. John, if you really can't guess, we will send a telegram to the Emperor of Japan in the name of the president later, asking about the situation of the war, I think that Emperor Hirohito will definitely tell us the truth." ”

"Hahaha......"

Everyone laughed, and Roosevelt handed the telegram to John, "Gentlemen, in order to eliminate Su Jin and his Third Army, the Japanese secretly sent a fleet including three aircraft carriers and four battleships to quietly ambush the east coast of China, thinking that when they went to sea, they would destroy them in one fell swoop, but because the French government announced its surrender, Su Jin and his Third Army failed to succeed, and in the end, the Japanese were unwilling to run away in vain, and directly launched a sneak attack on Taizhou, Judging by the telegram, they fought fiercely. ”

Truman, who didn't see the telegram on the side, said with some disdain: "These Japanese like to play sneak attacks the most, but the Chinese and French fleets must have suffered great losses without preparation, right?" ”

Roosevelt laughed: "Harry, you guessed wrong. On the contrary, this time the Japanese suffered a big loss. Although they sent more than 100 planes to attack the French fleet in Taizhou, the Chinese responded in a timely manner and immediately sent reinforcements, and then the two sides engaged in a fierce battle over Taizhou, the Japanese were shot down more than 80 planes, and the French had two cruisers seriously damaged. That Su Jin even sent more than 100 planes to counterattack the Japanese fleet, and the Japanese fleet's battleship Fuso and Tama cruisers and two destroyers were sunk, and the battleship Kongo and two cruisers were severely damaged, and the Japanese should have been distressed for a long time. ”

"That's really good news." John shrugged his shoulders, and then he said with a somewhat solemn expression, "Mr. President, let's not talk about the losses of the Japanese and the Chinese in this matter, at least we can draw a conclusion, that is, we may have underestimated the strength of aircraft carriers over the years, and the role played by this weapon that can carry a large number of aircraft in the war is probably very amazing, and we think that we should pay more attention to this weapon." ”

Roosevelt nodded thoughtfully: "John, you're right, but now you also know that the ears of those officials in Congress are all stuffed with sludge, and they don't even pay much attention to European affairs, and it may be difficult to make them hear the voice of Asia!" ”

"yes!" Truman, who was on the side, also sighed: "Especially those Republican guys, who are always shouting for Europeans to solve their affairs, let alone Asian affairs, if we want to apply for funding, I am afraid that they will oppose it." ”

After hearing Truman's words, everyone present thought of the faces of the Republicans, and everyone, including Roosevelt, frowned.

Republicans have always been known for their conservatism, a party that is characterized by social conservatism (including the preservation of "family values"), economic classical liberalism (including support for "conservative fiscal policy"), and a tough attitude on foreign and defense issues, and its representative is the famous 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is undoubtedly difficult to convince these guys to agree to increase military spending.

Seeing that everyone was pondering, Roosevelt comforted: "Don't worry, although there is no good way to get those old diehards to agree to the plan we submitted, but at least there is still an army in distant Asia that can cause trouble for the Japanese, and we can increase our assistance to them to make more trouble for the Japanese." For example, we can help the French repair and maintain their warships. ”

"That's a good idea." John nodded and said: "We can say hello to the British government and let the French fleet go to the port of Hong Kong for maintenance and repair, so that they don't have to travel all the way to the United States, otherwise if one or two warships sank on the way, General Su would have to die of distress." ”

"Hehe......"

Hearing this, everyone laughed, which of these people here is not a human spirit, they know very well the little calculation that Su Jin made before, the reason why they didn't insist on getting that fleet back is because they really don't look down on those few warships, for the Americans, there are not many more warships, and there are a lot of fewer warships, as long as they really need it, they can build a large group at any time. Keeping those warships in China would be more in line with the interests of the United States, and now they would not mind helping them in order to give the French fleet the ability to contain the Japanese.

"Well, gentlemen." Roosevelt nodded and said, "John, I'll leave this matter to you, but when you tell the British, you must repair those warships as soon as possible, I have a hunch that the Japanese may not just give up." ”

Roosevelt's feeling was right, the news of the defeat of the fleet led by Yu Huan almost made the staff officers of the base camp collectively lose their voices, how many years, since the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, the Japanese Navy has declared that it has long ceased to regard the Huaxia Navy as an opponent, half a century has passed, this belief has long taken root in the hearts of the Japanese Navy, but now it has lost four warships at once, which makes the Japanese who are from the big enough to stand it, and even Emperor Hirohito in the palace is angry after the news comes.

"Woo woo woo ......"

Sasebo Naval Base

A middle-aged man with a short and strong stature, a command knife inlaid with chrysanthemum ornaments hanging from his waist, and a middle-aged man wearing a navy's admiral costume was standing on the dock with a calm face looking at the fleet sailing in the distance, and behind him stood a group of Japanese naval officers with the same calm face, this man was Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, the commander of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, looking at the battleship Kongo and those scarred battleships at the front, Yamamoto Fifty-six's originally solemn face became even darker.

After the fleet docked, Yu Huan and a group of officers walked down from the warship, only to see him walk up to Yamamoto Fifty-six and bow deeply, and said softly: "Your Excellency Commander, I'm really sorry, I disappointed you, I will give an explanation to the emperor and the people!" ”

Yamamoto Fifty-six glanced at him coldly and said lightly: "You come with me!" ”

After speaking, Yamamoto Fifty-six took the lead in walking towards the car behind, Yu Huan quickly followed, and the black car quickly drove away from the dock......

Half an hour later, Yamamoto Isoroku and Uhuan sat in a simple room, with several dishes and a family of sake on the table in front of them. Yamamoto Fifty-six said in a deep voice: "Anyway, how did you lose that battle?" ”

Yu Huan didn't dare to slack off, and reported the battle situation to Yamamoto truthfully, and finally he said with tears in his eyes: "Your Excellency Commander, my biggest mistake is that I didn't do a good job in protecting the fleet, so that the reconnaissance plane of the Zhina people discovered us, and today let Su Jin do a good job of prevention in advance, which made this operation fall short." But what worries me the most is that Su Jin's troops have so many advanced fighters, and the latest Zero fighters developed by the empire are not their opponents at all, there are more than a hundred Zeros...... It was shot down like a turkey by the Chinese people, and if our Zero fighters could play even half of the role at that time, how could their dive bombers fly so swaggering over the fleet and dive bombing! After speaking, Yu Huan was drunk as soon as he picked it up, and then slapped the wine glass on the table.

Yamamoto Fifty-six stared at him and said in a deep voice: "Yuhuan-kun, your biggest mistake is not that you did not do a good job in protecting the fleet, but that you underestimated your opponent. Has Su Jin caused less trouble and losses to the empire over the years? How many army generals have returned home gloomily because of him, and someone must be responsible for this, otherwise the saliva of those people in the army will drown us, but don't worry, I will help you take care of your family after you leave! After speaking, he personally filled the wine glass in front of Yu Huan with sake.

For Yamamoto Fifty-six's words, Yu Huan did not have the slightest surprise. He had already thought of his ending, but he was drunk when he picked it up, and then stood up and bowed 90 degrees to Yamamoto Fifty-six, and said loudly: "Then everything will be entrusted to Your Excellency."

Yamamoto Fifty-six nodded with a calm face, turned and walked out and closed the door, and a few minutes later, the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground was heard...... (To be continued.) )