The fighting on the Western Front in Europe seems to have nothing to do with the Pacific theater on the other side of the world, but it is precisely the changes here that have had an incalculable impact on the strategic decisions of the United States.

As the leading country of the "Down-Tang Alliance", after the United States entered the war, its strategic plan determined the strategic plan of the entire alliance. As early as the beginning of the 24th, the United States determined the overall strategic plan, that is, to first complete the offensive in the Pacific, then fully support Britain and France to defeat Germany, advance to the Persian Empire, occupy the Suez Canal and the Gulf region, and finally besiege the Tang Empire and win the war.

On the whole, there is no problem with this strategic plan, the number one adversary of the United States is the Tang Empire, and the greatest threat to the United States from the Tang Empire is the Pacific Theater. Therefore, the United States first guaranteed victory in the Pacific Theater, which was directly related to the vital interests of the United States, and could contain the Tang Empire through the Pacific Theater. If the plan went well, then in the end the Tang Empire had to leave numerous ground forces on its own territory to prevent the US army from striking at the Tang Empire's homeland. But the problem is that the Pacific Theater is also the main battlefield of the Tang Empire, and it is a battlefield that the Tang Empire must strive for, and the United States must first compete with the Tang Empire in the Pacific Theater.

It is precisely because of the bloody war between the two sides in the Pacific that the United States was not able to send an expeditionary force to the European continent at the beginning of 25 (according to the plan of the American army, if the superior situation in the Pacific can be determined in 24, the expeditionary force will be sent to participate in the European war in early 25) 16K....

But in the same way, the Tang Empire also invested too much power in the Pacific Ocean, and as a result, it was not able to defeat Russia in 25 years as planned! The bloody war in the Pacific had a huge impact on both sides, and forced the Tang Empire and the United States to revise their strategic plans several times.

That line of defense on the western battlefield of Europe was only one of dozens of lines in the entire war. But it was precisely this line of defense that finally forced the United States to revise its strategic plan again.

After the "Battle of the Coral Sea", the United States has already revised its strategic plan. According to the new plan of the United States. The dispatch of expeditionary forces to Europe was delayed until the end of 25, or even to the beginning of 26. The U.S. Army's ground forces will only be fighting on the European continent, and in the months before that, the U.S. military must go all out to strengthen its defenses in the Pacific, gain time for the Navy to restore its combat effectiveness, and stabilize the defense line in the Pacific. Therefore. The United States was not able to send its first expeditionary force to the continental European theater in August 25.

At that time, more than 30 U.S. Army divisions that were originally planned to be sent to the European continent were sent to the Pacific theater, of which 20 army divisions were sent to the southwest Pacific and 10 army divisions remained in the Hawaiian Islands. As the signs of the Tang Empire's advance into the Australian continent became more and more obvious, MacArthur asked for at least 50 more army divisions to be reinforced, as well as 2,500 combat aircraft, and 2.5 million tons of combat materials, so that he could hold out on the Australian continent instead of being quickly defeated by the Tang Empire. Given the importance of the Hawaiian Islands, Nimitz also demanded that the defense of the Hawaiian Islands be increased to 350,000. That is, to reinforce at least 15 more divisions of ground troops, and to obtain at least 1,500 combat aircraft and millions of tons of combat materials.

If MacArthur and Nimitz's demands are met. Then the U.S. Army would have to send at least 700,000 more ground troops and 4,000 combat aircraft to the Pacific theater, and those supplies would need to be delivered by at least six fleets of 50 freighters each. And in this way, the United States simply has no way to immediately send an expeditionary force to the battlefield on the European continent. Its participation in the war on the European continent must have dragged on to 26 years!

One can only imagine how angry and disappointed Britain and France were when they learned that the United States would once again postpone its march on the European continent. The large-scale build-up of the German army and the Tang Imperial Expeditionary Force on the Western Front in Europe, and the fact that the German Army and the Tang Imperial Army had stopped offensive operations on the Russian battlefield, repeatedly confirmed that Germany would join forces with the Tang Empire to launch a large-scale, and certainly strategic offensive with the defeat of France as the final destination, on the Western Front in Europe.

At that time, France was on the verge of collapse, and Britain was also fighting on several fronts, and there was simply no way to provide more support to France (the British Army had not been very effective in combat). Spain has not contributed much, and there are still some scruples. Italy, on the other hand, made every effort to deal with the North African theater, where it fought extremely hard, and had to hold back dozens of German divisions on the southern front of Europe. Russia, on the other hand, is covered in bruises, and it is already good to be able to get a respite, how can it have the ability to launch an offensive and tear apart two fronts made up of hundreds of divisions? The only hope for Britain and France was that the United States would be able to quickly send troops to the Western Front in Europe and shoulder the heaviest task.

In order to allow the United States to send troops to the European continental theater, Britain promised to send a powerful expeditionary fleet to the South Atlantic (at this time, Britain had confirmed that the German terrible battleships were being overhauled in the shipyard, and because of the lack of spare parts, the repair work of the two battleships might last more than a year, and the British Air Force was still trying to bomb the German shipyards and disrupt the repair work), and the French Navy was also active, and also provided two battleships, which were incorporated into the British Navy's expeditionary fleet. The only demand put forward by Britain and France was that the United States must send troops to the European continent by the end of 25 years (in fact, Britain also put forward another condition at that time, that is, the US Army Air Force undertook 70% of the strategic bombing missions against Germany, and the United States also met this requirement of Britain and sent thousands of heavy bombers to Britain).

By August, the United States had begun to organize expeditionary forces. In order to keep Britain and France going, the United States did not even fully meet MacArthur and Nimitz's demands, and in the end, only 25 divisions of US ground troops were newly reinforced to the Southwest Pacific theater, and about 2,000 combat aircraft (including 500 heavy bombers) were also sent over. The U.S. military reinforcements assigned to the Central Pacific had only 10 divisions and 1,000 combat aircraft (including 300 heavy bombers). By reducing the number of troops committed to the Pacific theater and adding new troops, the U.S. military concentrated a ground corps of 50 divisions, including five tank divisions. Prepare to be sent to the theater of continental Europe to participate in operations on the Western Front.

The U.S. military is expected to arrive on the continent by the end of September, or the beginning of October. And by this time, the British expeditionary fleet should also attack Cape Town.

According to the plan of the United States. When the British expeditionary fleet attacked Capton, the Tang Imperial Navy must divide its forces in the South Atlantic and hold the last stronghold in the Atlantic. As a result, the Tang Imperial Navy would have been unable to immediately organize a new offensive in the Pacific Ocean, and would even have to slow down its advance in the southwestern Pacific. But the problem is. Beginning in late August, the Tang Imperial Navy made large-scale adjustments in the deployment of troops in the Pacific, and information from all sides was continuously sent to the US military.

What the United States received was the comprehensive reinforcement of the forces of the Tang Imperial Navy in the Central Pacific region, the first task force returned to the Central Pacific region, and the Tang Imperial Army reinforced 10 divisions in the Central Pacific region, and in addition, the Tang Imperial Navy gathered a large number of landing fleets and transport fleets in this direction. A large number of combat materials have also been delivered to this side, and its aviation is also being fully transferred. The Tang Empire strengthened its forces in the Central Pacific Ocean for only one purpose, and that was to attack the Hawaiian Islands! Meantime. The Tang Imperial Navy in the southwest Pacific Ocean was only attacking Port Moresby with all its might, and did not rush to attack the New Hebrides, and only the Fourth Task Force was active in the Coral Sea.

Combined with the intelligence of all aspects, the judgment of the US military is. The Tang Empire will first conquer the Hawaiian Islands in preparation for the future invasion of the Australian mainland! At this time, the U.S. military was in a predicament, and if the Hawaiian Islands were not strengthened in their defense forces (especially the air force), then the Hawaiian Islands were likely to be quickly captured by the Tang Empire. But the problem is that there is no way to draw troops from the Southwest Pacific Theater to strengthen the defense of the Hawaiian Islands, MacArthur has already fought hard, and the Tang Empire will definitely enter the Australian mainland in the near future. Then, we can only draw troops from the mainland to reinforce the Hawaiian Islands!

Just as the United States was preparing to send troops to strengthen the Hawaiian Islands, a major turning point occurred in the western European theater. The main armored forces of the French army have been annihilated, their first and most important line of defense (France does not have much strategic depth at all, and its first line of defense is of great significance) has been broken through, the British expeditionary force has been compressed to the sea, and then the German army quickly tore open the second line of defense of the French army and is rapidly advancing towards Paris. The French had little hope of holding Paris, and the French government had begun to move to Marseille, and the British were organizing forces to rescue the expeditionary force besieged by the sea.

At this point in the war, the United States can be said to be in a dilemma, whether to strengthen the defense of the Hawaiian Islands, or to rush to increase the European continent before the defeat of France? Judging from the strength of the US military at that time, it could only take care of one aspect at most. On 10 September, the President of the United States, after consulting Nimitz, made a major decision, that is, not to reinforce the Hawaiian Islands for the time being, and the expeditionary force immediately set out to save France.

Before the arrival of this expeditionary force, the 20 U.S. Army divisions stationed in Britain will first go to France to assist the French in holding off the German attack.

The U.S. decision at this juncture was to rescue allies, and Nimitz assured the president that he would do his best to hold on to the Hawaiian Islands, dragging out the fighting until at least early 26, waiting for new reinforcements, and the Navy to regain its combat capability. In fact, the problem fell into the hands of Nimitz, who had no idea if he could hold the Hawaiian Islands!

When he first received the information on the adjustment of the forces of the Tang Imperial Navy, Nimitz still couldn't believe it, after all, the Tang Imperial Navy had been fighting in the southwest Pacific for more than a year, and finally won a decisive victory, and was advancing the battle line to the Australian continent step by step. With the changes on the battlefield on the mainland, the Tang Empire's army will definitely be able to send troops to participate in the battle in the Pacific Ocean in 26, then the conditions for the Tang Empire to attack the Australian continent will be ripe. And before that, the first task of the Tang Imperial Navy was to capture Port Moresby, the New Hebrides, and even New Caledonia, in preparation for the invasion of the Australian mainland, what reason was there for the Tang Imperial Navy to divide forces to attack the Hawaiian Islands at this time?

Nimitz's first consideration was the reason for the Tang Empire's navy's attack on the Hawaiian Islands, or he had to help the Tang Empire's navy find a reason. Of course, he quickly thought of an important reason. That is, the Tang Imperial Navy should try to concentrate its forces to level the US forces in the Central Pacific before landing on the Australian mainland, and when the time comes, it can concentrate all its efforts on attacking the Australian mainland without worrying about problems in the Central Pacific.

This is Nimitz's own reason, but there are obviously big loopholes in it, and the biggest question is whether the Tang Imperial Navy has enough time to complete the operation to capture the Hawaiian Islands. Even the most optimistic estimates would have taken the Tang Imperial Navy more than half a year to attack the Hawaiian Islands, so its attack on the Australian mainland would be delayed until mid-26, not early 26.

This is clearly contradictory. If the main purpose of the Tang Empire was still to conquer the Australian mainland, then it should not have reopened a front that required a large number of troops. The most sensible choice would be to gain some advantage in the Central Pacific, then consolidate the defensive line, and wait for a decisive victory on the Australian mainland to defeat the Hawaiian Islands in one fell swoop.

These problems forced Nimitz to consider whether the Tang Imperial Navy was using a feint in the Central Pacific to contain the U.S. Navy's fleet. But at the beginning of September, intelligence from all sides confirmed that the Tang Imperial Navy was gathering troops in the direction of the Central Pacific, and the number of ground troops alone exceeded 250,000, and the Tang Imperial Army had already sent troops to the Central Pacific Theater.

In addition, the landing fleet and convoy assembled by the Tang Imperial Navy were enough to support a large-scale landing operation. And all this intelligence proves that the Tang Imperial Navy is preparing for a strategic offensive in the direction of the Central Pacific, and the purpose is definitely some island in the western part of the Hawaiian Islands!

At this point, Nimitz had no choice. He originally wanted Spruance to lead the fleet into the southwest Pacific, but now that the Hawaiian Islands are threatened, if Spruance is allowed to go south, it will be equivalent to opening the door for the Tang Imperial Navy to capture the Hawaiian Islands. In desperation, Nimitz was able to keep Spruance behind and prepare for a decisive battle with Task Force 1.