At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the White House. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Army Chief of Staff Marshall walked into President Roosevelt's office in a hurry, and while he was still at the door, he excitedly shouted, "Mr. President, good news, great news, it's amazing, it's incredible!" ”

"Oh, General Marshall, is the Battle of Midway over?"

Roosevelt was working at his desk, and as soon as he heard Marshall's voice, he immediately raised his head from the special wheelchair, with a nervous and expectant expression on his face, but he still waved at Marshall elegantly and motioned for him to sit down.

Roosevelt suffered from a leg disease and was known as the "president in a wheelchair", otherwise he would definitely jump up at this time, and the Battle of Midway was related to the future of the United States and the direction of the war, and no one could be calm.

Marshall was not polite, and sat down on the chair in front of Roosevelt, his mouth already gushing.

"Did you know? Just now, General Nimitz sent a good news that the Pacific Fleet of our army, together with the British East India Fleet, almost completely annihilated the First Assault Fleet and the Second Assault Fleet of the Island Army, and won a complete victory. It sank four heavy capital aircraft carriers and three light aircraft carriers of the island army, namely "Akagi," "Kaga," "Soryu," and "Taiho," and 12 battleships, including "Musashi" and "Kirishima," destroyed more than 100 other cruisers, destroyers, and other large and small ships, and captured more than 30 warships. Less than half of the warships of the two assault fleets escaped, and even the fighters on the third assault fleet were lost by nearly half, which was really an unprecedented victory, and probably a great miracle in the history of the navy. ”

"Hahaha, Admiral Marshall, not 'I'm afraid', but 'absolutely', this is definitely a great miracle in the history of the Navy!" Roosevelt waved his arms excitedly, his eyebrows fluttered, and then he changed his words and said, "By the way, what about our casualties?" ”

Marshall said: "Our casualties are not large, except for the 'Iowa' battleship was sunk yesterday, the 'Yorktown' was slightly damaged, and 32 other large and small warships were sunk, and the rest are all fine, however, the loss of aircraft is more important, a total of more than 380 planes of various types have been shot down, and more than 200 pilots have been killed or missing. ”

Roosevelt nodded and said: "Compared to this battle, this casualty is really nothing, to be honest, I am very relieved to be able to achieve such results, and I am sincerely happy, but I remember Jiang Haoran's plan, but he swore that he could completely annihilate the combined fleet of the Island Army, and this time he actually let Yamamoto Fifty-six and his Third Assault Fleet escape, hehe, it seems that he is not as rumored to be without omissions?" ”

Marshall said: "I read the battle report of Nimitz and Jiang Haoran, there is a reason for this, the island army discovered our intentions in advance, and began to hesitate, in order to prevent the island army from giving up this attack, they had to launch an attack in advance, which caused the encirclement to expand, and the island army's third assault fleet was thus free from the encirclement, and the battlefield was changing rapidly, and it was impossible to develop completely according to the plan, which is understandable, but"

Marshall stopped talking, and Roosevelt asked, "But what?" ”

Marshall showed a bitter smile on his face and said: "But Mr. President, don't underestimate Jiang Haoran because of this, his strategy, tactics, including his creativity, are very terrifying, and thoughtful, unfathomable, and extremely ambitious, I even feel now that it is wrong for us to push him to the position of commander-in-chief of the Southeast Asian Theater of Operations, once he controls Huaxia in the future, after the war is over, we may inevitably have a head-on conflict with him." ”

Roosevelt was stunned for a moment and said, "How do you say this?" ”

"Do you think, he has now begun to build a large industry in Burma, and it is probably unrealistic for the British to take back Burma from his hands, with his ambitions, I am afraid that the next step will be to extend his hand to the whole territory of Southeast Asia, Singapore, the Philippines, Siam and other places, I am afraid that all will enter the scope of his ambitions, so can we sit idly by?"

"He dares!" Roosevelt's eyes widened in anger, and he slapped the table and said: "If he dares to stretch out his hand to Singapore and the Philippines in the future, I don't mind smashing the atomic bomb on his head, and now that the 'Manhattan Project' is progressing smoothly, I believe that the atomic bomb will definitely come out by then." ”

Marshall said, "But can you be sure that he won't be able to come up with a more terrifying weapon by then?" Whaling Fork anti-ship missiles, Mustang fighters, Hellcat fighters, radars, helicopters and all other high-tech weapons are proving to the world that his creativity has surpassed that of the United States, which claims to be a scientific and technological power, and who can guarantee that he will not be able to come up with more terrifying weapons at that time? ”

Roosevelt was silent, his fingers flicked quickly on the table, for a long time, and he said in a deep voice: "General Marshall, you are right, but the battlefield in Southeast Asia is really indispensable to him, although we know that this person is not good, but we still have to carefully support him and let him charge for us, so at this stage, we have no way to deal with him at all." ”

Marshall suddenly showed a sly smile on his face, and said: "I don't think it is necessarily, if we want to compete for Southeast Asia, we must have a strong navy, as long as we choke the development of his navy, he will not dare to act rashly." ”

"You mean to start with the Yangtze River Shipyard?"

"Yes, let's start with the Yangtze River Shipyard, although we can't go too far in the open, but secretly we can double his costs, for example, we raise the price of steel and all kinds of materials, during the war, it is normal for all materials to be in short supply and increase prices, and he can't find anything wrong, so that the profits made by his pharmaceutical factory will flow into our pockets, and the number of ships that the Yangtze River Shipyard can produce for him will be sharply reduced, so that it will greatly restrict the development of his navy."

"Gao, this trick is clever, just do what you say!" Roosevelt complimented.

At midnight that night, eight hundred nautical miles away from the island nation, two aircraft carriers, escorted by four cruisers and six destroyers, quietly moved in the direction of the island nation.

They were the task force composed of the aircraft carriers "Zhongshan" and "Jiezhong," and they were carrying out the bombing plan for Tokyo that Jiang Haoran had single-handedly planned.

In the dim moonlight, the entire fleet could not see a single light, as if the moving islands were slowly advancing towards the goal. According to the plan, they were to get close to the island nation at the maximum distance, launch a surprise attack at dawn, and in order to prevent the early exposure of the target, they turned off all lights, the radio was silent, and at dawn the distance was advanced to six hundred nautical miles.