PS: I see that you are arguing fiercely about news censorship, let me give you an opinion: During World War II, the United States had a strict press censorship system and secrecy laws, see the history of journalism for details; In the post-war peacetime, the United States abolished the system and replaced it with de facto public opinion guidance until the rise of Internet media......

On February 4, 1944, on the first weekend of February, Henry Wallace, Vice President of the United States of America, received notice that his mission as President had ended. He stood up www.biquge.info pen "Fun" pavilion, stared out the window blankly, and didn't know what to say for a while. Now he felt as if a balloon had been blown to its maximum point and suddenly pricked with a needle, and the whole person was deflated.

There was a sudden knock on the door, and he called out weakly, "Please come in." ”

It was actually Nimitz who came in, and the other party saluted him first, and then reported: "I have just received an urgent telegram from the Pacific front, Japan dispatched a fleet to break diplomatic relations near the middle waters between the Marshall Islands and American Samoa, it is reported that at least 2 aircraft carriers and 1 super battleship and related cruisers and destroyers are included, and two fleets of our army were attacked, and 3 escort aircraft carriers and 14 merchant ships were lost, and 15-20 merchant ships may have been captured, and only 6 ships broke through the blockade line or turned back to Hawaii." Judging from the current situation, the strength of the Pacific Fleet is not the match of this Japanese fleet for the time being, so the delivery of materials to Australia and New Zealand may need to be temporarily interrupted. But I would like to implore you to tell the leaders of both countries that we will not interrupt our assistance to Australia and New Zealand, that they are very critical to the situation in the Pacific, and that we will find a way to overcome this crisis as soon as possible. ”

Nimitz was the most restrained of the members of the Staff, and the only one who thought that relations with Wallace should not be too stiff, and now because of Wallace's performance in lashing out at the African battlefield, even the usually moderate Eisenhower did not want to deal with him, except that he did not speak ill of Turner.

Wallace smiled weakly: "Thank you, General, for letting me know the situation on the front, but I can no longer exercise presidential powers now, Mr. Roosevelt will return to the White House soon, you can report to him on relevant issues before making a decision." ”

"Understood, thank you very much." Nimitz saluted again and stepped back.

Wallace sighed, he just noticed Nimitz's eyes, after hearing Roosevelt return to the White House, the other party's originally frowning brows suddenly relaxed, and even his eyes suddenly brightened, indicating that in the minds of this group of soldiers, Roosevelt is their backbone, and his idea of letting the public participate in politics and listen more to the voices of the people is mostly child's play in the eyes of professional soldiers, right? Do you want the people to tell the senior officers where to fight? How to fight? The military must have preferred authoritarian leaders like Roosevelt and Churchill, right? As for a political and military leader like Horiyoshi who can win battles, I'm afraid his subordinates are all determined to follow, right? -- Before the coup d'état, he was a military leader, but after the coup d'état, he became a political leader in the whole way.

Wallace's idea was not bad at all, and the Japanese Navy was originally not interested in breaking diplomatic relations, believing that it was not in line with the spirit of bushido, and was only obsessed with the decisive battle of the fleet, and even though it was clear that there was a submarine force of considerable scale, it was still only used to carry out the task of cooperating with the decisive battle of the fleet. However, after in-depth exchanges with the German Navy, which had been professionally breaking diplomatic relations for 30 years, and especially after many successes in breaking diplomatic relations, the Combined Fleet also began to learn badly, and a large number of submarines (whether built by Japan itself or later gifted by Germany) began to be sent to carry out the task of breaking diplomatic relations, and even the Musashi, which was reluctant to use in the previous fleet engagements, was used to break diplomatic relations, and it simply went from one extreme to the other. And the duo of Tsunoda and Nishimura went from being the vanguard of the robbery of the route to aid the Soviet Union to the second general of the robbery in the Pacific.

The effect of the armed breakup of diplomatic relations is indeed extraordinary, at least the appearance fees of the Musashi and Kongo formations have been doubled, and the stock of fuel on the intercepted oil tankers has been sucked up on the spot by large and small warships of the Second Air Battle, and even the excess fuel in those captured freighters has been sucked away -- anyway, the captured ships can be driven to Truk, and someone will worry about the rest of the matter. Just a few days after the Second Air War went to sea, the Japanese Navy set up the Oriental Theater, which was mainly responsible for operations in the Gilbert Islands, Marshall Islands, Mariana Islands, Solomon Islands, and the islands of New Guinea in the absolute defense circle. It is said that it is the Oriental Theater of Operations, and it is actually responsible for the entire Central Pacific region.

Compared with the Nanyang Theater, which mainly includes Malaya, Borneo, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines, and the Indochina Peninsula, the Oriental Theater is directly on the front line of the war and is more dangerous. Vice Admiral Tadashige Daigo, the only one proficient in submarine warfare, is also deployed in the theater. Hosogen Gokoro first helped Hori Yoshichi in his position as commander of the mobile fleet, and then took the lead in responding to the rebellion on the Taiho, and a general still had to give it.

According to the bilateral agreement between the army and the navy, the ground forces of the army and the army stationed on the islands of the Eastern Theater are under the unified leadership of the navy, and the relevant supplies and ordnance supplies (except for military salaries) are also handed over to the navy. Of course, it is only operational to obey the unified dispatch of the navy, and the relevant personnel and organization rights are still firmly in the hands of the base camp. In exchange, the Navy withdrew its entire presence in Chinese mainland and transferred assets to the Army, leaving only four points in Chinese mainland in the future: Qingdao, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Xiamen. After the Chinese sent troops to pick up the navy's fine goods, they turned around and sold some of the obsolete goods to the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

After large-scale friction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began in October 1943, the arms and material business of the Japanese army suddenly improved a lot, and there was an endless stream of people coming and going every day. However, the dispatching army soon found that the communist forces that came to contact and purchase were only one-tenth less than one-tenth of the opponent's, and the results of aerial reconnaissance showed that the communist-controlled area was expanding dramatically, which made the dispatching army puzzled, because the communist army's original weapons and equipment lagged behind the national army, and the number of arms purchased from Japan was also significantly less than that of the opponent.

The mystery was not revealed until December, and the reason was actually something that no one expected - oil! After shipping to India was cut off, the import of oil by the Kuomintang became a big problem, and Chinese mainland currently has only two oil-producing areas, one Yanchang and the other Yumen, with a combined annual output of only a few thousand tons, and these fields are all in the hands of the Communist Party. As soon as the guns rang out, all foreign exports were interrupted, and the supply of planes and tanks to the communist side was enough, but the mechanized heavy equipment of the Chinese side was completely finished. Combat on foot with simple light weapons? I'm sorry, but the Communist Party is the ancestor in this regard. On the one hand, the Chinese side transferred oil stocks from the southwest, and on the other hand, it urgently tried to buy oil from Japan, but China's dispatched troops themselves had a shortage of oil, and where they dared to export it, a few tons or dozens of tons that were secretly sold at a high price were a drop in the bucket, and it was better than nothing.

Under these circumstances, Japan also received a big order -- the communists purchased a set of oil production equipment and a batch of industrial machine tools from the Soviet Union, and demanded that Japan provide the entire transportation and security from Vladivostok to the communist-controlled area. Then the person in charge of the negotiation of the dispatch army said that you want machinery and equipment, and we have it, and we can sell it to you if you want it. If we can't get it, it's easy to do it, let the navy ship it from Europe! Europeans have a lot of outdated industrial equipment. Balu, who could hear this tone, was stunned for a moment, and then set up a cotton spinning mill, a small blast furnace, a machinery factory, a petroleum refinery, and so on.

As for the materials needed by the Kuomintang, the sending army gave them another idea -- to let the American father deliver them, and the Japanese practice of collecting 40% of the toll fee to ensure safety (the army red deer followed the same example quickly), and the Chongqing authorities, who were in a hurry to go to the hospital, really handed over the request through diplomatic channels. However, for Wallace, who had to stop aiding the Soviet Union and Britain, China's assistance was not in his scope at all. The relevant request was directly shot by Secretary of State Hull before it even reached Wallace's head, and the Secretary of State also held back a fire in his heart: You pushed back when you asked you to send troops to support the Indian side, and now you are reaching out to us to ask for benefits? This abacus is too beautiful, isn't it? Even if Hull agreed, the Joint Chiefs of Staff would not let it go, and in the latter's view, although there were still some Japanese troops in the Chinese direction, their significance and status had declined sharply, and they were increasingly unable to play a role in containment.

This judgment is very accurate, in the past year or so, Japan has withdrawn from a very large territory, the strength of China's dispatched troops has been reduced to less than 400,000 for the first time, and the former subordinates were divided into the North China Front, and when the Tokyo coup d'état and the base camp completed the personnel adjustment, Yan Junliu, who had been complaining about the transfer of Chinese troops from the center, was kicked into the reserve by Ishihara Waner. Okamura Ninji, the former commander of the North China Front, became the commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army, and the North China Front was abolished, and the divisions and regiments under it were directly turned into the Dispatch Army. Of course, the reduction in numbers does not mean a decrease in combat effectiveness, due to the increase in the degree of mechanization and armor and the increase in the density of troops brought about by the reduction of the control range, the actual control of the Japanese army in the greatly reduced control area is improved, and the level of armed surveillance can be reached.

In response to this situation, it is rare for the Joint Chiefs of Staff to have the same opinion as Wallace: the aid given to China is purely wasteful and can be resolutely cut!

ps: I'll have another chapter after 4400 in the evening, but it's tomorrow......