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At eight o'clock in the morning, Roosevelt was having breakfast in the dining room, and the attendant military attache Watson suddenly walked in from the door, went straight to Roosevelt's side, and said anxiously:

"Mr. President, I would like you to listen to the radio!"

Roosevelt was a little surprised, and then waved his hand to Miss Lehand, the life secretary who was standing aside: "Lehand, please help me turn on the radio!" ”

Lehande did not dare to slack off, hurriedly walked to the cabinet where the radio was placed, twisted the button, and suddenly heard the announcer's slightly joyful voice from the loudspeaker: "According to the Associated Press, an hour ago, the South China Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a press conference in Beijing, saying that decisive progress had been made in the East Indies war."

Roosevelt heard it attentively, and the bread dipped in cream in his hand fell on the table without noticing, and after a long while, he sighed: "It's unbelievable, the Chinese actually used only two armies to completely annihilate more than 200,000 Japanese troops, and incidentally annihilated more than 500,000 puppet troops, why are we so difficult to achieve a victory?" ”

At this time, George Marshall, Chief of Staff of the Army, walked into the dining room with a briefcase and a telegram in his hand, and when he heard Roosevelt's words, his face turned red, and then he said to Roosevelt:

"Mr. President, I think this has something to do with the fact that our troops have not undergone much training and do not have much combat experience! After all, the year before the outbreak of the war, we had only 100,000 troops, but now our troops have expanded to 1,630,000, including 270,000 in the army air force, and the rest into 29 infantry divisions, five armored divisions, and two cavalry divisions.

"It is not an overnight task to turn a young man of school age into a qualified soldier, and besides, in the continuous battle, our slightly experienced soldiers are seriously depleted, and many of them are even students who were still in university classes a month or two ago! In terms of weapons and equipment upgrading, we are also seriously lagging behind, and many weapons and equipment are directly designed by the United Kingdom and the Republic of South China, such as the B24 long-range bomber produced by Boeing, which is derived from the B5 bomber technology of South China!

"However, I always firmly believe that with our strong industrial strength and many years of technical reserves, we will catch up in all aspects. After all, the United States has a population of 130 million, which can raise more troops than Japan, which has a population of 100 million, and at the same time we have a strong industrial base, which can produce a steady stream of weapons to replenish the consumption of the front line in time, and victory will eventually belong to us! ”

"Dear Marshall"

Roosevelt shrugged his shoulders and said with a wry smile, "Actually, we are very clear about these advantages, people all over the world think so, even Churchill thought that victory was just around the corner after learning of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but it has been almost a year since the Pearl Harbor incident, what is the current situation?"

"In terms of the navy, the Panama Canal has just been repaired, but due to the successive defeats in naval battles, we no longer have enough ships to be sent to fight in the Pacific region, and the army is a mess, and we can't move forward in the face of a small number of Japanese troops on the South African side, and the southwest Pacific theater is gradually losing Australia, and even under the threat of the Japanese Navy in the future, Sealand may also be lost, all this is like a nightmare!"

Speaking of this, Roosevelt glanced at the telegram in Marshall's hand and asked, "Marshall, don't you tell me that you are here to report victory, where has the Japanese army in Australia advanced now?" ”

Marshall was a little embarrassed, and after the staff removed the stool, Roosevelt sat down opposite him, shook his head, and said:

"I'm sorry, Mr. President, the situation is not optimistic, in the early hours of yesterday morning, the town of Yas, the gateway to Canberra, the capital of Australia, was lost, and the Japanese troops have been directed at Canberra and Sydney! In the past month, the Japanese army has occupied most of South Wales and Victoria in Australia, and large and medium-sized cities such as Adelaide, Geelang, and Melbourne have been lost, and the Japanese army has successfully advanced the front to the first line of the Great Dividing Range.

"Previously, after General MacArthur withdrew from the Eyre Peninsula to Tasmania, he could not hold it firmly, and the Australian army ignored several requests for help, but repeatedly strengthened the island's defenses! For this reason, the Australian government and army were very dissatisfied with General MacArthur, saying that he had never fulfilled the responsibility of an ally, and if the whole of Australia fell, General MacArthur, as the commander-in-chief of the theater, would be fully responsible for this! ”

Roosevelt was silent for a moment and asked, "Marshall, do you think that if MacArthur throws his eight infantry divisions and two armored divisions into the battle to defend the east coast of Australia, can he recover the current disadvantage?" ”

"This—"

Marshall thought for a long time, and finally shook his head helplessly: "According to the information obtained by the intelligence department, the Japanese army that MacArthur faced had a total of twenty-nine main divisions, four tank divisions, and thirteen independent infantry brigades, in addition, there were twenty-five Japanese-Indian divisions, twenty Malay divisions, and fifteen Burmese divisions, and the total strength of the Japanese army was about two million. ”

"yes!"

Roosevelt took a sip of milk and said with some emotion: "From the current situation, General MacArthur's choice is undoubtedly correct, since he knows that taking the initiative to attack will fail, why not save his strength and wait until he gathers enough strength to counterattack?" Do we want to put our troops into the battlefield in batches and batches and slowly consume them?

"I have read MacArthur's operational report submitted through Secretary Stimson of the War Department, and at present, when the enemy is outnumbered, we can only make full use of the width of the Bass Strait, and the island of Tasmania, which covers an area of nearly 90,000 square kilometers, can always maintain a threat to the Australian mainland, and we also have a springboard for counterattack.

"However, even so, it is not very safe, after all, the strength of the Japanese navy has increased greatly after successive wars, on the contrary, we have lost a large number of experienced naval officers and men, and our combat strength has been seriously damaged, so we should also build a strong defensive barrier on the north and south islands of Sealand I have ordered MacArthur to withdraw half of his troops to Sealand, so that even if Tasmania is lost, it will not be wiped out by the enemy!"

Marshall didn't expect Roosevelt to be so pessimistic, he was stunned for a moment, and took a deep breath: "Mr. President, then how do we reply to the Australians?" ”

"Tell them we're overstretched and can't help! But we can send a fleet and pick them up to the United States to form a government-in-exile! ”

Roosevelt thought for a moment and added: "Isn't there more than 100,000 immigrants in Australia to Mong Cai City in northern South China?" They can also form a government-in-exile there! Time is too precious for us, and we need more time to train and fight for the armed forces to reach 2.8 million or even 3 million troops by this time next year, and this is something that the Japanese do not want to leave us! ”

Later, the Associated Press and the United Press both summed up the war between South China and Japan in the past month or so, saying that this was a victory for the allies in the true sense of the word, and it was a great encouragement to the current military and people.

Marshall listened carefully and suddenly suggested:

"Mr. President, since the South China army is so brave and good at fighting, perhaps we can ask Chairman An Yi to send troops to help us Among the many troops that have experience in fighting the Japanese army, only the South China army has always maintained a high victory rate against Japan! I have followed the situation of the South Chinese army in the past month against the Japanese army in the Indochina Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent, and the South Chinese army has won a series of jaw-dropping victories, and it can even be said that the Japanese army has been at a disadvantage from beginning to end!

"On the other hand, we have lost consecutive battles, Hawaii has been lost, the Philippines has been lost, Guinea has been lost, and now Australia is about to be lost! Failure is not terrible, what is terrible is that we don't know why we failed, if we talk about weapons and equipment, we don't lose to our opponents, if we talk about physical fitness, those Japanese shorties are only as tall as our chests! But we still lost, and we lost for no reason!

"Mr. President, I expect that in two more months, the South China army will be able to easily open up the mainland communication lines, and then use half a year to completely clear out the Japanese troops in the Indochina Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent, so that millions of South China troops will be idle."

"It is too early to say this until the Navy has achieved sea supremacy in the Indian Ocean!"

Roosevelt's expression was grim: "During this period of time, seeing the frequent victories of the South Chinese army in Indochina and the Indian subcontinent, Prime Minister Churchill's mind became lively again, and he called me across the ocean for several days, saying that India is very important to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, saying that King George of the United Kingdom, who is also the emperor of India, is a well-deserved guardian of India for more than 200 years, and Britain has the right to get back what it has lost!" ”

"Oh my God!"

Marshall was dumbfounded: "Is that obsessed fat man crazy?" Now that the international situation is so bad, he even wants to anger a country that has won successive victories in the war against Japan! Does he want to push Nanhua to the opposite side of us to be happy? Mr. President, you can't go crazy with him! ”

Roosevelt stroked his forehead with a bit of a headache. "The problem is that Britain's strength has been damaged too much, since the war started the year before last, they first lost Southeast Asia and India, and then North Africa and the Middle East have not been saved, and now the war has spread to East Africa and South Africa, and Australia is about to lose it again in the blink of an eye! In this case, I am very worried that the British will not be able to withstand the huge psychological pressure, and they will break the jar and turn to the Germans!

Hitler made several speeches in Berlin, saying that he was only interested in the land of the East, and that after the complete conquest of the Soviet Union and the acquisition of living space for the development of the Germanic peoples, he would live in peace with the countries of Western Europe!

"Once Britain surrenders, tens of billions of dollars in loans from the United States to aid them will be gone! I'm embarrassed by the current situation! ”

"Mr. President, there is absolutely no way that the British will surrender to Germany!"

Marshall shook his head again and again: "This is clearly Prime Minister Churchill's shameless blackmail!" Judging by the Chancellor's conversations, and the disposition of the British on all fronts, there was no reason for them to turn to the Germans! Look at the southern and eastern parts of the United Kingdom, where there is not a single intact city due to continuous bombing by German fighters, and millions of British civilians have died! If Churchill dares to surrender, he will be betrayed and killed! ”

"But we can't deny that it's possible!"

Roosevelt said solemnly: "And Marshall, don't you think that the territory of the present South China Republic is too vast?" Indochina, the subcontinent, West Asia and Central Asia, it is said that they also signed a secret treaty with the Soviet Union, and acquired millions of square kilometers of land in Siberia and the Far East coastal region! If we don't suppress it, another superpower will emerge across the Pacific, and that's the same as raising tigers? Let's not defeat one Japan, but build a stronger opponent for the United States! ”

"Mr. President, I think we have to prioritize and prioritize, no matter what, South China is our ally, and Japan is our enemy! The top priority now is to resist the invasion of the Japanese army, which already has the ability to fight in the two oceans, and to stabilize its position under its powerful sea and land offensives. ”

Marshall's expression was extremely grim: "Now that the Chinese are going all out to annihilate the Japanese army, I believe that it will not be long before we can achieve a decisive victory in the war against Japan, and if we take advantage of the situation and give some promises, it will not be difficult to bring the Chinese into our war track." On the other hand, if we anger the South China government and add an opponent in vain, there may be a big mess in the central Pacific and the Americas, I am worried."

Seeing Marshall pause when he said this, Roosevelt was still a little puzzled at first, and then his face changed greatly, and he said in a trembling voice: "Are you worried that Japan will strike at our homeland if it has the confidence to meet the South China army in the hope of winning a big victory?" ”

"Yes, by all accounts, this is highly likely!"

Marshall nodded solemnly, then took out a thick stack of pictures from the briefcase in front of him and handed them to Roosevelt.

Roosevelt picked up the picture and looked at it carefully.

The images are apparently aerial photographs of the labor scene of the construction of the railroad, with white, yellow, black and brown people, sweating and busy, laying the foundations and laying the railroad tracks. The background of the picture is very rich, there are mountains, forests, plains, lakes, oceans, and even snow, which is extremely confusing!

"What is this?"

Roosevelt looked at it for a long time and still couldn't grasp the point: "Looking at the situation, it seems that a certain country is building a railway, it seems that it is still a Caucasian country and now Europe is at war, looking at the snow on the map, it does not look like South America, is it our Alaska?" However, I can't remember when we had such a large-scale railway construction project! ”

"Not the United States of America!"

Marshall shook his head and explained to Roosevelt's puzzled gaze:

"This is a real scene that is currently taking place in the Far East, and the Japanese government will make every effort to build a railway from Konmorsk, in the former Soviet Far East, in the Soviet Union, and in the Soviet Union, from the former Soviet Union's Primorsky region, to Petropavlovsk and the port of Uellen on the Chukchi Peninsula, which the Japanese government has taken prisoners!"

Roosevelt was very knowledgeable about geography. The Chukchi Peninsula is located at the northeastern tip of the Eurasian continent, bordered by the East Siberian Sea and the Chukchi Sea to the north, the Bering Sea to the south, and Cape Dezhniov to the east. Therefore, when he heard Marshall's report, his face also changed greatly:

"How is this possible? The Japanese actually wanted to build a railroad around the Pacific Northwest Coast, did they have so much financial and material resources? This could not be a deliberate strategic deception by Japan to alleviate the pressure on Australia. ”

"Unfortunately, this is real!"

Marshall's face was also ugly: "In order to build this railway, the Japanese army used nearly one million prisoners of war from various countries, plus one million colonies of young people, divided into 300 sections for construction, and each group allocated more than 6,000 people, responsible for building 10 to 20 kilometers of railways. Since most of the areas through which the railway passes are permafrost, they cut down trees to roast the earth, wait for the land to be normal before construction, and lay special rails to adapt to permafrost.

"In the past two months or so, our reconnaissance planes have repeatedly carried out reconnaissance and photographing, and have confirmed that nearly 1,000 kilometers of the railway have been built, and the construction progress of the Japanese army is speeding up, and according to the current speed, it is expected that the construction of the entire section of the railway will be completed in April and May next year. Of course, if the area suffers from extreme cold weather in a row, the final completion of the railway may be postponed until the summer of '42! ”

"Crazy! The Japanese are completely insane! ”

Roosevelt shuddered: "Could it be that these abominable dwarves want to cross the Bering Strait directly and attack our Alaska?" And then cross Canada from north to south and launch an attack on our homeland? Treated us like nothing."

"Mr. President, we must not underestimate the madness of the Japanese at any time!"

Marshall smiled wryly and said, "From the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to the blasting of the locks of the Panama Canal, to the successive naval battles, which Japanese action did not surprise us?" Think about it, if the Japanese really come all the way from Alaska, we will be in big trouble! Once the Japanese army is allowed to attack and harass the western and central regions of our country, our industrial and agricultural production will be seriously affected, and the United States will face a great crisis since independence! ”

Roosevelt pondered for a long time, and finally nodded: "Okay, I will personally persuade Churchill to give up his provocation against Nanhua at this time!" However, Marshall, if we want to send troops to South China, we must at least wait until our navy controls the situation in the Indian Ocean, and at that time, the situation may change again! ”

Speaking of this, Roosevelt looked at the large pendulum clock in the middle of the restaurant and said:

"It's about to be time for the meeting, let's go to the conference room first, and then discuss how to congratulate Nanhua on its victory in the war against Japan!"

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P: 5350 words before, free thereafter!

I saw that some book friends said that the Japanese army lost continuous battles, where are so many people coming to die, here is a little explanation with the free word count!

In fact, as long as you read the book carefully, you will find that at present, the Japanese army in Malaya, Burma and East Indies has a total of less than 500,000 troops, and most of them are servant troops and indigenous mobs who have been instigated or held hostage. Even with the ferocity of the Anjia army on its own plane, the total number of enemies destroyed since the start of the war in the third and seventh years will not exceed 1 million, and compared to Japan's war potential, it has not damaged its fundamentals!

As for the war materials, because they did not fall into the quagmire of the Chinese war, the Japanese army in North China and Shandong mostly confronted the Chinese army, and consumed less, while the Japanese army seized Lanyin in advance, defrauded the United States of loans, scrap steel and investment, and scooped up enough development capital, and through the attack on the Far East and Siberia, obtained a large number of machinery, and after the occupation of the East Indies, the economic and industrial strength rose to a higher level, until the current occupation of Australia, the energy, resources and industrial center developed by the butterfly effect!

Historically, in the early stage of the Pacific War, the Japanese army fought against Britain and the United States, and it was completely a war to feed the war, and the British would rather leave the war materials to the Japanese than to the Chinese Expeditionary Force.