Chapter 1710: Soon it will be winter
Can it be blocked? This is really a problem, none of the veterans present dared to pat their chests and say that they could hold Greenland.
Greenland, the largest island in the world, covers an area of 2166086 square kilometres. The distance from Piri in the north to Cape Favel in the south is 2,574 kilometers, about 1,290 kilometers at its widest point, and the coastline is more than 35,000 kilometers long.
If the location is right, it is definitely a place with a large population, but in fact, it is only settled by tens of thousands of people. The island is a typical cold climate with temperatures above freezing in summer in the coastal areas and freezing all year round in the inland areas.
In such a place, it is impossible to deploy too many troops, and the supply will make people collapse.
Since it is impossible to deploy too many troops, once the Germans come to attack, as long as the Germans do not hesitate to spend their money, they will definitely be able to fight down.
Greenland can't hold on.
Arnold's plan, by now, is already obvious.
Let the Germans attack Greenland first, and under the strong offensive of the Germans, Greenland will be conquered, and the follow-up troops will go up, so that the main fleet of the Germans should be withdrawn.
When they attack, vigilance is definitely the highest, and a sneak attack is almost impossible, but when they retreat, it is different, as long as they are careless, their own bomber forces will be able to achieve results!
Is it worth it to use Greenland at the expense of a devastating blow to the German fleet, just like the Battle of Midway, losing the island and destroying the fleet?
Those present were once again lost in thought.
Greenland, the stakes are very high, that is the German army is impossible to be stationed on a large scale, that is also a springboard, for example, from the Greenland air base to take off fighters, it is easy to support their cross-sea landing in Canada battle, this is the benefit of the springboard.
However, the problem now is also obvious, as long as the Germans do whatever it takes, Greenland cannot hold on, at best, it will be more deaths.
The Germans are dying more, and the United States is dying more, it's mutual.
Arnold has a different point of view, with the goal of attacking the opponent's fleet, after the opponent successfully lands, especially after occupying the air base on the island, he will definitely relax, and then it will be an opportunity.
Now, how do you choose?
Roosevelt didn't dare to make a direct choice, the stakes were too great, and he had to think about whether to give up Greenland after making great sacrifices, or to give up on his own initiative and then attack their fleet?
Little by little, half an hour later, Arnold spoke again: "Autumn has arrived, and soon it will be winter. In addition to the natives of Greenland, our defenders are also suffering. ”
Arnold's words made Roosevelt finally make up his mind.
Yes, Greenland is a springboard, but it's a springboard, and in the summer, the temperature is above zero in the south, and now in autumn, the temperature is below zero.
If you don't have experience in operating in cold regions, it's useless to have Greenland, although Europe also has winter, but there is a warm current in the North Atlantic, so that the winter in the whole of Europe is warm, definitely not like Greenland under the influence of the cold winds in the Arctic.
If the Germans occupy Greenland, they will only be able to hide in the fortifications and shiver in the coming winter, their guns will freeze, and their planes will not start, so that the existence of Greenland will hardly have much meaning, and with this winter, they will have a valuable buffer period.
Germans, too, are not so terrible.
On the contrary, if the sneak attack is successful, the harvest is even greater.
Roosevelt had always considered the question of how to destroy the German navy, and now it was time to seize this opportunity.
"Well, in that case, we can consider abandoning Greenland, after teaching the Germans a hard lesson, and at the same time, making the strike at the German Navy the main objective." Roosevelt said: "Move our main fighters to Canada, take off from bases in eastern Canada, support the fighting in Greenland, and let the Germans know that we in the United States are determined to defend our territory, even if we are forced to retreat at the end." ”
Roosevelt's words were regarded as agreeing to Arnold's proposal, which was actually enough to make a fuss, although he knew the goal of the German attack, but he could not do anything, and he would continue to lose his homeland.
Greenland is just a barren land. It's a springboard, but it's just a springboard, and the Germans can't take advantage of Greenland this winter.
Let's think about how to expand our own fleet, that ice aircraft carrier, I don't know if we can overcome technical problems and enter active service as soon as possible.
Roosevelt turned the wheel of his wheelchair and came out of the window, where the sun was slowly setting, and there was a special beauty, and the land of America would soon fall into darkness again.
Across the ocean, Wolf Valley 2.
"Our intelligence system, which discovered that the Americans are on a certain lake in Canada, is working on the creation of an ice aircraft carrier." Reinhardt took the information he had just gotten and reported it to Ciric.
During this time, Reinhardt put all his attention on the United States, and because the early stage had been arranged for more than ten years, it was now very efficient to harvest intelligence.
The intelligence obtained by the Americans, just a few words, is like a treasure, but Germany is different, the specific content of the intelligence has been intercepted, a 2 million ton ice aircraft carrier?
With this information, Ciric only glanced at it a few times, and then put it aside: "Don't be afraid. ”
Historically, the British and Americans have indeed tinkered with this thing, but there are too many technical problems to solve it in the end, and, 2 million tons, how big is that engine?
The Americans are in a hurry to jump over the wall, but alas, they still did not find the right direction, and it is not better to build aircraft carriers in Canadian shipyards? Why do we have to engage in this kind of anomaly?
Ciric is not worried.
Even if the Americans really make it up in the end, don't be afraid, the era of propeller planes is about to pass, and the future will be the era of jets, taking off and landing jets on ice aircraft carriers? How brain-dead does that have to be to figure it out?
"The second piece of intelligence is that the island nation is planning to use high-altitude balloons to strike at the US mainland." Reinhardt continued.
High-altitude balloons? This news attracted Reinhardt's attention, well, it seems that the islanders are not so stupid, and they actually thought of this solution in advance.
The Americans will definitely close the news, so that the islanders think that their tactics are ineffective, and their own side will simply poke some news.
"Find an opportunity to let our European newspapers report on it, especially the results of the battle, and summarize them once a day." Ciric said with a smile.
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