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The earth-shattering changes in the direction of Argentina shocked everyone, and the rabbit was overwhelmed in half a month, quite the same effect as the October Revolution in Russia that shocked the world in ten days.

Snowflakes of urgent telegrams poured into the Oval Office of the White House, urging a re-examination and assessment of the situation in South America. Roosevelt might have gritted his teeth and persisted if it had been a purely military incident, but now that political, economic, military, and diplomatic pressures are pouring in, he cannot turn a blind eye to it. In particular, Argentina's nationalization policy has been firmly rooted in the major American conglomerates, which have evaporated at least $2 billion to $2.5 billion in assets out of thin air overnight (and may exceed $3 billion if you count the UK).

Roosevelt could ignore the cries of others, but he could not turn a blind eye to the pressure exerted by the leaders of the major conglomerates and the members of Congress attached to them. Moreover, Secretary Hull, who had helped him to make up his mind, had now changed his tune and turned to the importance of South America to the United States, and even pointed out that since the Monroe Doctrine was promulgated, there had not been such a serious invasion by European powers, a tone that almost made Roosevelt feel the urge to spit out his old blood.

Under these circumstances, Admiral King's "small move" of ordering the rapid withdrawal of the detachment with the Iowa and West Virginia as the main forces turned a blind eye, and even many people praised the navy's quick response and avoided wasting strength in vain.

The Axis Fleet under the leadership of Machar consists of three parts: an artillery strike formation, an aircraft carrier formation, and a transport formation, of which the aircraft carrier fleet is the core of the entire force. The formation has a total of 3 regular aircraft carriers, namely Zeppelin, Aquila, and Harrier Eagle, and after the partial introduction of BF-219C carrier-based aircraft with folding wings, the overall standing combat aircraft exceeds 200, and the pilots equipped on it exceed 320 people, reaching an ultra-high ratio of 1.6:1.

The auxiliary aircraft carrier is the Elbe River rebuilt from the cruise ship Potsdam, which has been optimized for the experience of using the Europa, and has an overall displacement of more than 25,000 tons after completion, and looks larger than the Skyhawk and Harrier Eagle, and can carry nearly 30 carrier-based aircraft and 18 AR-372s on the deck. However, except for the water reconnaissance, which has a complete take-off and landing capability, the rest of the planes are not as long as the Europa because of their displacement, the length of the main deck is insufficient, and only the fighter can take off smoothly among all kinds of carrier-based aircraft, and the heavy attack aircraft cannot take off with heavy loads unless they reach the rear of the deck, and the flight speed is slow.

However, the importance of the auxiliary aircraft carrier is that it can carry infantry and lightly armed mechanized troops to carry out attacks, and it is an amateur amphibious assault ship, and its name has been changed to an integrated aircraft carrier in the German Navy. Similar to the Béarn, the German Navy also has a semi-finished aircraft carrier from the French Navy, the Xiafei, which was originally a regular aircraft carrier, but the French design is really a bit whimsical, even if it is completed on schedule, it is a scrap, but it is very suitable to be converted into an auxiliary aircraft carrier, especially after not having to arrange complex hangars and lifting systems, its completion efficiency has a qualitative flight, and it will be completed in December according to the schedule.

The core of the reconnaissance echelon is the Strasbourg and Gneisenau, and the core of the fire echelon is four Italian Veneto-class battleships, and the newly built Reich, which is controlled by the German army, is also among them, and the other is the Tirpitz. The battleship Richelieu and the Scharnhorst, which were damaged in the Caribbean Campaign, were left in Italy for repairs, and the Scharnhorst, in addition to major repairs, had to undergo the same main gun replacement as the Gneisenau, and the caliber of the ship's guns would be changed from 283mm to 380mm.

It is said that it is a distinction between reconnaissance and firepower, but in fact the firepower echelon battleships are not slow, and both the Tirpitz and Veneto class can run 30 knots. The slowest in the entire artillery formation was actually the pocket battleship Deutschland, which could only run 26 knots.

Anyone who has come into contact with the navy can see at a glance that this is a robbery fleet -- all clippers, and Germany and Italy have taken the characteristics of breaking diplomatic relations tactics to the extreme.

Of course, the shortcomings of the Veneto class are also obvious, the endurance is insufficient, compared with the endurance of the Japanese and American battleships that often cost 8 or 9 thousand nautical miles, the endurance of the Italian battleships, which has always been in the Mediterranean Sea, is only more than 4,000 nautical miles, so that in the case of overloading fuel, the journey from Madagascar to the Falklands also carried out an additional refueling operation in the middle of the way. So the more than 20,000 tons of fuel oil (almost all of which were heavy marine fuel) left on the Falklands by the British overjoyed Maschar, and these lovely Britons only had time to blow up a few petrol canisters - which were stored with aviation fuel, and the aviation fuel fleet was not lacking.

Of course, there were some situations that Mashal did not expect, and after he seized the Falklands, he also received information about the Tarawa battle between Japan and the United States transmitted from China, and he was very happy to learn that the aircraft carriers of the US Pacific Fleet were completely slaughtered by the Japanese army, which meant that the pressure on him would be greatly reduced, at least in the short term, there would be no risk of being attacked from both sides.

The Japanese side was even more elated when they learned the news that the German army had occupied the Falklands: The cut off of the South American route meant that the Pacific Fleet could not be replenished with capital ships, and if the US forces wanted to launch an attack in the Pacific Ocean, they would have to wait at least until they had defeated the German and Italian fleets.

On the one hand, the Japanese army continued to increase its troops, and on the other hand, the British and Indian troops who were cut off from foreign supplies, and Mountbatten fell into despair.

In the Oval Office, Roosevelt convened a secret meeting, and it was not easy for a politician to publicly admit his mistakes in front of his subordinates, but Roosevelt did not reserve in front of these henchmen, and sincerely talked about his misconsiderations: "I did not expect such a major change to happen in Argentina, and I miscalculated the decision last time. ”

The expressions of the crowd were different, the most obvious being Hull and Donovan's old faces flushed, the former swore that a united Europe was the greatest threat, but he was forced to change his tune after two days; The latter personally went to Brazil to set up the arrangement, but not only did he return in vain, but his eyeliner and the leading figures he was looking for in Argentina were also uprooted by the Perón authorities, and what was worse was that the relevant secret exchanges and telegrams between the United States and the local forces were all discovered, and the United States' attempt to interfere in Argentina's internal affairs was completely exposed, causing a great uproar in local public opinion...... (To be continued.) )