Chapter 627: Revenge 1
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At the new White House in Washington, after declaring war on the Chinese Empire, Roosevelt asked the secretary's office to call the commanders of the three armed services for a meeting, while he himself sat in his office dejectedly, his eyes glazed over. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½ββ
Although Roosevelt had prepared for the worst, the attack on San Juan did not produce the desired results. Although the U.S. military had already inflicted heavy damage on the Caribbean Fleet, the second detachment of the Chinese Empire's Atlantic Fleet, in San Juan, and destroyed the Chinese Empire's largest integrated military base in the Americas, it can be said that the U.S. military had achieved a brilliant victory, paving the way for its subsequent plans to attack the Caribbean and Central and South America. ββ
However, Roosevelt and even the entire US military did not expect that it would be a result of 1,000 enemy casualties and 800 self-losses, the Nimitz fleet lost one super battleship, 21 aircraft carriers, and more than 2,000 carrier-based aircraft, while the Ella's strategic air force lost more than 2,000 long-range bombers. Although the sneak attack successfully destroyed the main force of the Chinese Empire's air force at the San Juan base and destroyed more than 2,000 aircraft of the Chinese Imperial Air Force, it allowed the two large aircraft carriers of the Chinese Empire to escape, which posed a great threat to the US Navy's subsequent military operations in the Caribbean. ββ
The huge economic aggregate and industrial capacity of the Chinese Empire, as well as its huge war potential, made Roosevelt extremely worried, but fortunately, Hitler and the entire Allies did not abandon the United States, which was a small relief.
Soon, the commanders of the three armed forces rushed to the meeting. ββIncluding Marshall, Chief of the US General Staff, MacArthur and Eisenhower in the Army, Henry in the Air Force? Arnold, Ella? Ek and Carl? Sparts, and Ernst on the naval side? Kim, Nimitz and William Jr.? Helmsey et al.
"I wonder if our plans will still go ahead?"
Everyone sat down, and Roosevelt went straight to the point and asked his questions. ββ
Everyone looked at each other, and finally Marshall sighed and explained: "The price of our planned air attack on San Juan was to lose only about 400 combat aircraft, but the result is really embarrassing, we have lost more than 4,000 combat aircraft, ten times more than we expected. β
Roosevelt asked, "I just want to know if the plans to attack Hawaii and Bermuda will still go ahead?" β
Marshall smiled bitterly: "We planned that once the sneak attack on San Juan was successful, the Chinese Empire would inevitably retaliate, and they would take off a large number of bomber groups from the bases in Hawaii and Bermuda to bomb the mainland, and our original plan was to use 5,000 long-range bombers to attack these two bases when the Chinese Empire gathered heavy troops in Hawaii and Bermuda, and destroy the offensive forces of the Chinese Empire in the Americas in one fell swoop." But now we have less than 900 long-range bombers left, and we can't carry out long-range raid operations against Hawaii. But we still have more than 4,000 short- and medium-range bombers, which can still launch large-scale air strikes against Bermuda. β
Roosevelt asked, "How is it just an air raid?" Wasn't the previous plan to capture Bermuda? β
Marshall looked at Nimitz, who was very embarrassed and said, "It's all my poor command that ruined our aircraft carrier battle group." At present, our navy is probably trying not to stay far from the mainland, because the fleet lacking the protection of aircraft carriers is vulnerable to air attacks by the Chinese Empire. β
Roosevelt looked at Nimitz and was very unhappy, but he also understood that Nimitz had done his best.
At this moment, an alarm suddenly sounded over Washington, and Roosevelt's secretary rushed in.
"Oh no, Mr. President. The Air Defense Command has discovered that a large number of aircraft groups of the Chinese Empire are heading towards us! (To be continued)