"The shipping route that we wanted to reach the USSR by going east was completely blocked by the Germans." At the White House, after receiving the news that his cargo ship had been detained by the so-called Joint Maritime Enforcement Committee, Secretary of State Hull said rather depressed.

The route to the east was blocked, and only the west was left, which was a longer road, but the United States had no other way, and now it had to support the Soviet Union to fight and rely on the Soviet Union to consume Germany's military strength in order to buy time for the United States.

"They are asking us for a ransom of 500 million euros, which is a money grab, and doing so is no different from pirates." Marshall followed suit.

Everyone gritted their teeth with hatred, and when the Germans announced the news, they were indignant about it, the sea there is public, why should you Germans enforce the law?

However, in this world, the truth that a hard fist is the boss will not change, and the United States is already very difficult to deal with the provocations of the island countries in the Pacific Ocean, after all, the construction of warships and the expansion of the fleet will take time, and only by defeating the island countries first can we deal with the German threat in the Atlantic, and in this case, the Soviet Union can only delay Germany.

If, like the rest of the European theater, Germany destroyed the Soviet Union in a few months, then the United States would have to fight on both sides. At that time, the United States will really not be able to bear it, after all, the current expansion rate of the German Navy is frightening.

"There is another thing, the Soviets were not satisfied with the fighters we were supplying, they were hungry for high-altitude fighters." "Now, we are even more surprised by the progress of the Germans in the field of aviation, and it is said that during the bombing of Petersburg, the German bombers appeared at an altitude of 25,000 meters," Marshall said. ”

Afraid that Roosevelt would not understand, Marshall followed: "Our fighter jets cannot fly to more than 12,000 meters in the air at present, and in the opinion of technical experts, with our current capabilities, it will take about two years to reach that ceiling." ”

In this era, the United States has begun to show the vitality of the New World, but its scientific research capabilities are still not as good as those of the old capitalist countries and the Old World.

In World War II in history, the continuous development of American science and technology was also the scientific and technological personnel of the Old Continent in the past, and almost all kinds of advanced technologies flowed from Britain.

"We should intensify our scientific research efforts and develop a high-altitude fighter with an altitude limit of 15,000 as soon as possible." Roosevelt said.

Roosevelt had a deep understanding that he could bomb the Soviet Union today and the United States tomorrow, and that he must have fighters with the same performance, at least be able to intercept them.

At least, it's not easy.

Although the Soviet Union had already made contact with the German high-altitude bombers, the Soviet Union did not tell the United States all the contents, for example, the most important one was that the bomber did not have a propeller.

Historically, the United States did not have any technical reserves for jet engines, and the jet engines they initially developed were all from Britain.

Now, the Americans can only start by improving their own propeller aircraft.

Germany put too much pressure on the United States, but Roosevelt still firmly believed that victory belonged to the New World and to the free people, and they would open up new routes and continue to support the Soviet Union's just war of resistance.

At this time, on the land of the Soviets, war was raging.

"The Germans have not yet attacked our positions?" In Kyiv, Budyonny listened to the news from the front and could not help frowning.

Something is wrong.

According to the pace of the German advance, they have now reached their own defensive zone on the Dnieper, and the Germans, who have always been quite bold in their style, should have overtaken their bridges and tried to cross the Dnieper a long time ago.

And at the same time, the side is completely ready, and if necessary, even at the expense of blowing up the bridge, it will not let the Germans cross the Dnieper!

This moat must be protected.

This is Budyonny's unwavering conviction.

"Marshal, shall we send more reconnaissance planes to search for the whereabouts of the German troops?" Next to him, Admiral Kirponos suggested to him.

The huge German army suddenly disappeared, which made everyone's hearts heavy, where did the disappeared army go? Is it just a temporary pause because the logistics can't keep up? Or did you go in another direction?

If it's the former, then it's good to say, if it's the latter, it's a big trouble, so a huge corps, if you don't come to fight Kyiv, where else can you go?

On the battlefield, the Germans already occupied absolute air supremacy, but after all, the airspace was too huge, and there were still many gaps for Soviet reconnaissance planes to conduct battlefield reconnaissance.

Germany has a strong aviation industry capacity, and they have produced a lot of advanced aircraft, and even reconnaissance aircraft have special projects.

But the USSR was different, the USSR in this era could only seize all its capabilities to produce fighters, there were no specialized reconnaissance aircraft at all, but they had a huge number of aircraft.

The Wave-2, an open-top biplane, is born to be a generalist.

Pilot Morris, piloting this small plane, flying over the vast land at an ultra-low altitude, took off from Kanev and flew slowly to the east.

Where exactly is the army of the Germans?

Below is the flat land of Ukraine, in the cool breeze blowing in the face, with the smell of fresh earth, sweet to breathe, Morris's heart is surging with heroism, this is his own motherland, must not be trampled by the Germans!

The sky is clear, it's a good weather to fly, his plane is gray-black livery, looking down from the sky, his plane can blend well with the ground, and their threat comes from above.

After flying for more than an hour, and not encountering any German planes in the sky, it seems that the German army will not appear in this area.

"Let's continue to fly west." The observer in the back seat suggested.

Pushing the joystick, Morris continued to fly the plane westward, and after an hour of further flight, he suddenly pointed to the ground in the distance and shouted, "Look! ”

On the ground in the distance, there were clouds of black smoke, that kind of black smoke, which looked very eye-catching, it was the tank engine coming out at high speed, and so much black smoke was definitely the main tank force of the other side advancing!

"Quick, fly back immediately, we have to tell Kyiv that the main forces of the Germans are going south and heading towards Uman!"

Without getting close to observe, Morris began to fly back, he did not dare to get too close, and when the Germans found out, they could not go back, they had no radio, and they had to go back to report.