After being taken aback by MacArthur's angry expression, Huls, the combat staff officer, immediately and nervously told the other side about the exchange of weapons and equipment between the Japanese and German armies.

"Damn the Germans! Hitler dared to intervene in the war in the Pacific, this war maniac is really impatient! ”

"By the way, how is the war on the Western Front going now? And how is the Sicilian campaign, which Eisenhower commanded, going? Did you take Sicily down? ”

After hearing this, MacArthur still scolded in a very unhappy mood.

"I heard that the Battle of Sicily has been lost, and there are heavy casualties, and now it is being evacuated! And I also heard that Malta, where Commander Eisenhower was located, was being subjected to a massive air attack by the German aviation forces, and the situation was not optimistic! ”

Operations Staff Officer Hulse reported in a cold sweat.

"What! You're kidding me! Did you know that the Allied forces under Eisenhower's command had more than 400,000 elite troops? And there are thousands of planes, thousands of ships, and most importantly, hasn't President Roosevelt already sent a large fleet of aircraft carriers to support them in the war? How could the army be defeated like a mountain! ”

"What did Eisenhower eat, did his brain get into the water?"

Hearing this, MacArthur's eyes suddenly widened, and he shouted in disbelief.

"I don't know very well about this issue, but these battle situations are sent back from the front, and all our high-level staff departments have already received them, and this time President Roosevelt summoned you and Admiral Marshall to the White House, it should be for this matter!"

Scolded by MacArthur like this, Combat Staff Officer Huls suddenly shuddered, and hurriedly explained in a cold sweat.

"Eisenhower! What stupid deeds have you done, you always cautious fool! Defeated with superior troops and equipment, could it be that Hitler's war maniac had three heads and six arms? Bastard! ”

As soon as the words fell, MacArthur suddenly burst into a rage and began to curse.

His invective was so deafening that it directly silenced the soldiers on the light cruiser, and no one dared to say a word.

"When I meet President Roosevelt, I must scold Marshall, I really want to know what kind of big fool he recommended to be the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in the Mediterranean! It is really not enough to succeed and more than to lose, and now it is even letting the forces of the German army get involved with Japan, do you want to make our Pacific War worse? ”

But at this moment, MacArthur was still angry and angry.

In this case, he was scolded until he had no strength; And Huls, the combat staff officer who had been standing beside him in fear, was already sweating at the moment, and his whole body was wet with sweat.

"Why do you want to send me to such a difficult to serve superior, I don't want to be promoted and rich now, just a boss with a better temper and a more down-to-earth heart!"

At the same time, Huls, the combat staff officer, was also very frantic in his heart, and said with tears streaming down his face.

However, after MacArthur had vented all his anger, he did not dwell on the defeat of Eisenhower, but continued to focus on the Pacific War, and asked the combat staff officer Hulse to give him a clear report on what weapons and equipment the Japanese army had exchanged from the Germans, and send personnel to investigate.

For MacArthur, the battlefield he is most focused on now is not the distant European theater, but the Pacific Campaign in front of the country, which is not only about whether he can retake the Philippines and restore his lost glory, but also about the safety of the United States of America in the Pacific and the status of hegemony.

So now it is for him to find a way to kill the Japanese devils as soon as possible, and then find a way to deal with Hitler.

Of course, there was a difference between his thinking and that of President Roosevelt, because the latter's thinking was to Europe first and then the Pacific, to defeat Hitler first, and then to Japan.

So for this time; President Roosevelt was summoned and heard of Eisenhower's defeat, MacArthur decided to try to change President Roosevelt's mentality, so that he could first dispatch a large army to destroy all Japanese forces in the Pacific, and then land on the Japanese mainland to fight, conquer Japan, and force Japan to surrender completely.

Then concentrate all your energies on Germany and Hitler.

Of course, MacArthur didn't care if President Roosevelt would accept his advice; Because he had already made up his mind, whether he accepted it or not, he would use Eisenhower's defeat to win him more troops, and send weapons and equipment to the Pacific Campaign to resist the Japanese invasion, and he would recover all the overseas territories occupied by Japan as soon as possible, including the Philippines, which he had been thinking about day and night, so that his honor could be restored to glory.

While MacArthur had made up his mind, Admiral Chester William Nimitz was also on a cruiser on the orders of President Roosevelt to return to the White House in Washington.

At this time, he not only received information about Eisenhower's defeat, but also knew that the Japanese army had been exchanged by the German army, and had obtained a lot of heavy firepower weapons and equipment.

And the battle of Munda Island, which is now underway, does not seem to be very optimistic for the US military.

However, as far as he is concerned, the combat plan he is thinking about now is still thinking about how to attack the Japanese army along the two routes of the Central Pacific and the Southwest Pacific, with island by island attack as the basic strategy.

And how, in November, the Battle of the Gilbert Islands will be launched.

Of course, at this moment, he did not know that when he launched the island-by-island attack tactics in November, the Japanese soldiers suffered a lot of casualties due to the extremely strong Japanese fortifications.

However, it was precisely because of this that he changed from an island-by-island approach to a cross-island approach, that is, to surround certain islands without attacking them (trapping them), and to cross these islands and attack key islands.

This is the famous frog jumping tactic in later generations, that is, abandoning the traditional practice of pushing flat on the first line, jumping forward, and attacking across the island.

Taking advantage of the superiority of the navy, avoiding the Japanese army's first-line defense points, attacking the weakly defended islands in its strategic depth, and then continuing the offensive with the support of this after success, so as to speed up the process of victory in the war.

Of course, this "leapfrogging" tactic was later applied to the airborne paratroopers in the 1983 war of the US invasion of Grenada, which shocked the world.

That is, relying on airborne troops to cross the enemy's defensive positions and seize the enemy's important airfields by surprise attacks, thus disintegrating the enemy's air force combat capability.

As for such an airborne frog jumping tactic, in the future war, Chen Yanlong also drew a gourd and moved it to the two battlefields in the east and west, and even the African battlefield.

Of course, Nimitz and MacArthur did not have such an idea and enlightenment.

"It seems that the situation in the Pacific War is beginning to change in a way that we did not expect, but no matter how the Germans intervene, I will not let them succeed! I want to end this war as soon as possible, because there are too many dead people in our country, and we should not continue to fight these fascists, so we must defeat them as quickly as possible! ”

After listening to the report of his subordinates, Nimitz stood in the command room of the cruiser, his eyes blazing and thinking to himself.

Because at this moment, he has decided to win the Pacific War in the shortest possible time, no matter what the price has to pay, he will win.