Only Turner, who was neither a party nor of sufficient rank, did not know about this, but the hospitalized Admiral King had entrusted Turner with full authority to act as his representative, and this could not be hidden from him. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Turner is a smart person, he understands when he sees this scene, but he is surprised, Churchill actually wants to carry out a coup d'état in this kind of scene? How crazy is he?

"To be honest, I don't think Prime Minister Churchill's idea of stabilizing the political situation will eventually succeed, we only have more than 100,000 troops in the British Isles, and they are deployed in different places, and there are 3 million troops in Britain itself, even if it is more elite, there are more than 1 million, and we are in a weak position in terms of strength. Now that shipping is cut off, it is difficult for these 100,000 or so people alone to control the whole of Great Britain. But I think there is one thing that must be recognized: if Britain does surrender, these more than 100,000 people will not be saved. Truman said, "From that point of view, since we are doomed to lose more than 100,000 people, it is very important for us to use them to delay for a while." ”

Lehi groaned: "When this news comes out, no matter whether it succeeds or fails, it will become a cannonball for the government and the opposition to attack you." ”

Truman nodded, he thought about the consequences, and everyone thought about the same: Truman dared to support Churchill in a coup d'état? Will he also carry out a coup d'état in the United States in the future? This is a dangerous precedent.

In fact, he had already gone to Hopkins to check the situation, and the other party first affirmed that there was such a thing, but also stated that he disagreed: "This is a last resort, and I hope you will be cautious." ”

Marshall said: "Can the British include this in the terms of peace?" That is, they can stop fighting, they can take away equipment, but they can't detain our people, these 100,000 people let them go home. ”

"I think it's very difficult, the Germans won't agree." Lehi shook his head, "The key now is not to let Hitler get those two armored aircraft carriers, even if we can't get them, we can't let the Germans get them." ”

"Why did the British let Germany get those few warships? Just because the Battle of Iceland sank 1 aircraft carrier? Marshall asked, "Can't the Royal Navy learn from the Germans and have a rainbow?" ”

Rainbow was the code name for the collective self-sinking of the German High Seas Fleet in Sparka Bay, and Germany finally paid a heavy price for this self-sinking -- the domestic civilian ships were all collected. The event was so famous that Marshall, who was in charge of the Army, remembered it vividly.

"The British don't do that, they are from-stirring sticks, how can they do such a thing? In addition, the British sank not 1 aircraft carrier, but 2. Turner added, "One more heavily damaged German aircraft carrier was sunk by a British submarine on the way back - the poor Royal Navy finally achieved the only victory, and it was by submarines, and of course this submarine was finished." ”

Due to the severe injury of the Hyuga, the German Navy decided to return to China via the North Sea instead of returning to the Mediterranean Sea for repairs, only to be torpedoed and sunk by a British submarine on the way - what a bad luck! Fortunately, Britain was about to surrender, and Hoffman, as the commander of the navy, gave a death order that the two armored aircraft carriers of the British must be collected.

At present, the main force of the Atlantic Fleet is 3 fleet aircraft carriers plus 3 battleships, and by August it is 5 aircraft carriers and 3 battleships, and Germany is currently 5 aircraft carriers and 8 battleships, and it is expected that there will be no new capital ships by August. Therefore, although he was not optimistic about the coup d'état itself, he thought that it was necessary to delay it for a while, even if Britain could not hold on in the end, and let Churchill come to the United States or Canada with four battleships, or as long as those two aircraft carriers came to North America.

Take 10,000 steps back and let Churchill find a way to sink it!

"If we don't get these warships, can we get our troops to sink them or rely on British patriots?"

"I'm afraid it's difficult, the British are very close to these warships, and when the situation is at its most tense, they refuse to use anti-aircraft guns, fighters and defense units to protect them, and it is almost impossible to ...... them."

Truman is now a little remorseful, if he had known that the Germans would lose 2 aircraft carriers and only 2 regular aircraft carriers remained, Nimitz's fleet should not have withdrawn so early, and should have fought again, a dozen, even if the 1:1 fight is over, the Germans will only have the last 1 aircraft carrier left in the Icelandic direction, and let the Army Aviation and the British Royal Air Force fight again, maybe the Iceland campaign can barely achieve a result of survival in death. After this month, 2 aircraft carriers on the mainland, 2 aircraft carriers in the UK, and the naval power will be pulled back at once! -- He did not know that Germany had arranged a second wave of reinforcements in the Mediterranean, and it was nothing more than useless to win the war.

Of course, this is just an afterthought, how can there be so many regret pills in the world that are delicious?

Truman suppressed his frustration and turned to something else: the situation in Brazil was in such a hurry that strong measures had to be taken to make Churchill a little more visible and relieve the pressure -- a situation where he could barely be a dead horse doctor.

Lehi guessed what he was thinking, so he reminded: "The president also said that in the consideration of the relations between the United States and Canada and the United Kingdom and the United States, he personally did not want Churchill to come to Canada to organize a government-in-exile. ”

Truman nodded: "But now that the situation is like this, I think there are some adjustments, if Prime Minister Churchill can bring four, no, two aircraft carriers, we should still welcome them." ”

The others looked at it and nodded silently.

Truman's final word: "Then it is decided, inform our troops to accept orders, but do not get too involved, and do not have particularly obvious hints and orders."

Marshall wanted to say something, but he felt very bitter and couldn't say it.

"Now that the focus is on solving the Brazilian problem, 4 divisions have landed and General Nimitz's fleet has arrived on the Caribbean front, where do you think we should start?"

"The Army's plan was to reinforce six more divisions (including one armored division) according to the original arrangement, but the original plan was to reach the Recife area and the Rio area, but now the route is threatened by the Germans and requires naval assistance."

"The Navy's plan is to put the Army on standby on the front line in Venezuela and Guyana first, and then wait for the new aircraft carrier to officially join the fleet, and General Nimitz will fight the German army." Due to Admiral King's absence, the navy's plan was expounded by Turner, although Lehi was born in the navy, combat has always been his strong point, "Intelligence shows that the German army in South America is a detachment composed of 2 aircraft carriers and 2 battleships, and we hope that our own strength is prepared to be stronger to avoid unnecessary losses." ”

Truman bowed slightly: After successive defeats, the navy and army are now much more cautious, and no one dares to say that they will be able to defeat their opponents. The Army believed that victory would require a 3:1 superiority, and the Navy believed that it would have to at least outnumber its opponents in the size of the fleet to have a chance of victory.

"How do you set the time?"

"At the end of June, the dispatch of six divisions was completed, and it happened that the naval fleet was also integrated and could act in unison." Marshall explained, "Now the trouble is the Army Aviation, which has suffered heavy setbacks for two years, and the troops prepared for the South American direction have been lost in the Icelandic campaign, and General Arnold is so anxious that his hair is gray. ”

Speaking of land aviation, Truman also sighed. Army Aviation is one of the few troops that has always dared to fight in the past few years. Later, the African Campaign, the Caribbean Campaign, the Bermuda Campaign, the Newfoundland Campaign, the Icelandic Campaign, and the Transatlantic Strategic Transport Campaign repeatedly attacked, and the army aviation crew lost more than 10,000 units one after another (more than half of them were heavy bombers or transport aircraft), not including the losses in the Far East, the Pacific, and India (Hump Route).

This was the first time that there was disobedience or passive sabotage, and in the end, under the mediation of many parties, the situation was "reduced to a small matter, and a small matter" was disposed of, and those who disobeyed orders were transferred to serve on the Pacific front after receiving warnings or demotions. The Joint Staff Committee has made secret statistics that the front-line crew members of the army aviation before the war have a survival rate of less than 10 percent, except for those who were transferred to the ground forces and withdrawn due to injuries due to causes, and 7 percent of them are because they are serving as instructors. In other words, the intact rate of officers and men of the Army Aviation who served before the war was only 3%! (Of course, many people did not die, but lived in prisoner of war camps)

"Let HNA share a little." Truman turned to Turner and said, "At least the HNA in the Caribbean should assist in the completion of the combat mission, and Bermuda will also be handed over to the HNNA." ”

Turner took it upon himself.

The only good news is that the aircraft model has developed rapidly: by the beginning of June, more than 1,000 pilots had completed Meteor jet training, including 800 for land aviation (including 300 for the United Kingdom) and 200 for Hainan Airlines; The monthly production of jets reached 600 units/month; HNA has carried out a large-scale refitting of the main carrier-based aircraft, some carrier-based fighter formations have been replaced by F4Us, the old SBDs and TBFs have finally begun to replace BTDs, and the one-month preparation period mentioned by Turner is not only for warships, but also for the replacement of aircraft fleets -- this is the fastest time after desperately compressing.

The fleet reconnaissance aircraft that has been criticized for a long time has finally landed: the water reconnaissance has been replaced by the Sea Eagle urgently produced by Curtis, and the performance has greatly improved compared with the previous Seagull and Kingfisher, with a maximum speed of more than 500 km / h and a range of nearly 1800 km (plus auxiliary fuel tanks), although there is still a little gap compared with the Ar-372 water reconnaissance of the Japanese and German generals, but the gap is greatly narrowed; The ship's reconnaissance aircraft used the F6F reconnaissance two-seater type, the maximum speed dropped to 547 km / h, and the range was 2,000 km when the auxiliary fuel tank was attached, and it could take off from the escort aircraft carrier without the auxiliary fuel tank. The thinking of the US carrier-based reconnaissance planes is somewhat different from that of Japan and Germany -- it does not pursue a long range, but it has installed a sea search radar with an action range of 80 km, which can effectively help the observers reduce their operational burden.

"Then it's decided, I'll send my opinion to London later, and I'll visit the president in the afternoon, and he's in a very unstable condition."