"What? Chinese attack Hawaii? ”

This news from Hawaii was like a bolt from the blue for Roosevelt, who had just sat on the interim presidential throne. Although he is disabled, he is definitely not mentally disabled, and he knows all too well what Hawaii means to the United States: that is, security.

With the rise of China, he has realized that the Pacific interests between China and the United States are competing, and for this reason the Western world wants to suppress China, he has been pushing and lobbying behind it, and at that time there was not much conflict of interest between China and the United States, and the United States was even China's second only importer to Germany. But he understands that the pursuit of interests by human beings, groups, forces, and countries is endless, and although the Pacific Ocean is large, disputes are inevitable.

According to his original intention, he wanted to station heavy troops on Guam and the Philippines to echo each other, so as to directly threaten China's first island chain and even the southern hinterland. China also attaches great importance to the island chain, and only Taiwan's main elite troops are stationed in three armies, plus local garrison forces, reserves, and police, and the number of troops that can be mobilized at any time can reach 200,000, and more importantly, Sanduao across Taiwan is China's most important naval base. In order to ensure control of the first island chain, Chinese military leader Li Bufan even used obscure methods to make Japan disappear from the world, wiping out tens of millions of lives at will. And what is the purpose of China attaching so much importance to the control of the first island chain? No doubt against the threat from the Pacific.

Sure enough, war broke out. China immediately captured Guam, a small island, where the United States, in order not to overprovoke China, had only one regiment stationed there, but the Chinese offensive force was committed to one army.

The Chinese have ambitions for Guam.

Roosevelt understood Li Bufan's behavior very well, because only by controlling Guam could China maintain a strategic balance with the United States, which occupied Hawaii, in the Pacific game. If the United States controls Guam, then Guam is only more than 2,000 kilometers away from Taiwan, Japan, and the Ryukyus, and the United States can rely on its powerful navy to attack almost any part of China's first island chain at any time. And if Guam falls into the hands of the Chinese, then Hawaii, the stronghold of the US strategic offensive, is more than 6,000 kilometers away from the defense line of China's outer island chain. Beyond the conventional naval combat radius. Under normal circumstances, both sides can only stare dryly.

But now the balance in the Pacific Ocean was broken, and the Chinese attacked Hawaii and destroyed the US Pacific Fleet. With the wisdom of Roosevelt. I think I understand it with my toes. Hawaii is over, and if the Chinese side is not very sure, it is simply impossible to launch such an almost suicidal attack.

Once Hawaii fell into the hands of the Chinese. Then the long coastline from Alaska in the north, then Canada, the west coast of the United States, Mexico, many countries in Latin America, Colombia, Peru and other long coastlines will be exposed to the attack of the Chinese navy.

Secretary of State Hull said bitterly, "Yes, Your Excellency. The Chinese adopted a new model of naval warfare, using aircraft carriers to launch aircraft attacks hundreds of kilometers away in the morning. Due to the weekend, many officers and soldiers reveled until late to rest, and many soldiers died in their sleep after being bombed. According to conservative estimates, the losses of our navy officers and men alone exceeded 20,000. ”

Roosevelt exclaimed, "Twenty thousand? How can there be so many? ”

Hull said with a bitter face: "According to the naval regulations, the warship is the camp of the officers and men of the navy, and in wartime, even if it is a vacation, it must return to the warship to rest, in order to prevent emergencies. Fleets, airfields and fortresses were the focus of the first wave of air raids by the Chinese, half of our warships were destroyed at the first time, and almost no officers and men survived the destroyed warships. ”

Roosevelt's face turned grim and roared, "Damn it! Damn the Chinese, damn Bailey. Immediately telegraphed the damned Bailey of the Pacific Fleet and asked him to immediately organize the evacuation of the officers and men of the Navy, quickly! ”

Hull was taken aback and said, "Your Excellency, Hawaii is too important, should we just give up?" ”

"Do you think I want to give up?" Roosevelt roared angrily, "The question is, are we possibly possible to hold Hawaii now?" I'm sure this was followed by a full-scale assault on Hawaii by hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops under the cover of their naval guns. I want to keep the seeds of the Navy, understand? ”

"Yes!" Hull stared blankly at Roosevelt, who was out of control, and was shocked.

Roosevelt tried to calm his anger, gasping for breath and gritting his teeth: "Our Atlantic fleet is finished in the Bay of Bengal, and the damned British use our fleet as cannon fodder, fighting hard with the Chinese battleship batteries, and the losses are exhausted, and the prisoners were also killed in the pit some time ago." Now the Pacific Fleet is completely finished, and even though we still have a detachment in the South Seas, our US Navy has completely turned into a second- or third-rate navy in the world, and it has reached the most vulnerable period in terms of size and strength. We in the United States have a lot of industrial capacity, and we can quickly build a larger, more advanced, and larger fleet, but we can't conjure up a huge number of excellent naval officers and sailors in a short period of time, understand? ”

"Understood!" Hull responded.

Of course, he knew very well that when the war broke out, Roosevelt instigated Congress to promote the construction and expansion of the navy, and he just wanted to take advantage of the war to make the US navy surpass Britain and truly become the world's number one maritime power. It is rumored that Britain was also wary of the US Navy's seizure of Britain's maritime supremacy, so the British Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet of the Chittagong Naval Battle in the Bay of Bengal, Miller, after the US commander was seriously injured, ordered the fleet to fight hard with China's 'battleship batteries' at any cost, causing the Indian Ocean Fleet, a coalition force dominated by the US Atlantic Fleet, to suffer complete losses. But even if the United States knew about it, it could only swallow this bitter fruit, because the war broke out ahead of schedule, caused by the American MacArthur, and that naval battle was fought by the British under the banner of saving the million-dollar Burmese Front at all costs.

The international game is cold and cruel, and calculating allies for the sake of profit is just commonplace. Of course, at that time, no one thought that the Chinese would occupy such a strategic advantage as they are today, and no one would believe that China could single-handedly counter the entire Western world, and for this reason, the Western world considered the post-war situation in the war and tried its best to win post-war strategic advantages and strategic interests for its own country. If it were now, the British might not have done this, because China is too strong to have the upper hand in the face of the entire Western world.

Hull understands better that with the strong industrial capacity of the United States, in seven or eight months, a number of warships will be put into service, and the United States will be able to pull up a fleet of considerable size again. But a strong naval fleet is not just a matter of having advanced warships, it also needs people to operate it.

"We were all deceived by the damned Chinese." Roosevelt gritted his teeth.

Hull sighed, "Yes. The Chinese were so cunning that everyone thought they were going to attack India. ”

Roosevelt shook his head and said, "I'm not talking about this, I'm referring to aircraft carriers." The Chinese built super battleships in Sanduao, and we all thought they were anti-war super battleships. While they did build three super-battleships, there were three super-aircraft carriers and six smaller ones. The main combat weapon of aircraft carriers is aircraft, and the Chinese have the most advanced aircraft in the world. ”

At this moment, Roosevelt was extremely sad and helpless, when the intelligence showed that the Chinese were secretly building super battleships, although the naval powers did not say it explicitly, in fact, they were secretly preparing for the manufacture of super battleships. Did the Chinese build three? Then the United States will build six. But are super battleships so easy to make? The cost is simply astronomical, and the cost of each ship is hundreds of millions.

If the battleship is still the hegemon of the sea, then it is worth spending a little more. However, the emergence and use of China's aircraft carriers made Roosevelt keenly aware that aircraft carriers would inevitably replace battleships as the protagonists at sea. Even he, who doesn't understand the navy, can know this, because an aircraft carrier can attack with aircraft from a distance of several hundred kilometers, and can the guns of a battleship hit hundreds of kilometers? If you can't hit it, it's equivalent to waste. As long as there are enough aircraft carriers, waves of air strikes can always sink battleships, although anti-aircraft fire can pose a certain threat to aircraft, but is it more expensive to have planes or battleships? One battleship was worth more than a thousand aircraft.

The United States is lagging behind and being strategically deceived by China. The problem is that the United States not only built six Iowa-class super battleships at the beginning of the war, but after the naval battle in the Indian Ocean, the US Navy Department ordered six more ships, and the British calculated that the United States would retaliate against Britain and be determined to seize naval supremacy. More than a billion dollars were invested in this way, and for this reason the aircraft carrier program that the United States was preparing to build was squeezed out, which not only lost money, but most importantly, time.

Hull hesitated for a moment and said, "Then we will immediately place an order for the aircraft carrier to the shipyard, and at the same time order the airline to develop more advanced fighters." ”

Roosevelt nodded and said, "I'll leave this matter to you." After a pause, he said, "In addition, inform the convening of the House of Representatives, we must expand the army by three million." ”

"Three, three million!?" Hull was taken aback, barely believing his ears, and looked at Roosevelt in disbelief.

"I'm worried that three million won't be enough." The corners of Roosevelt's mouth twitched, his eyes fell on the position of Hawaii on the globe on his desk, and he could hardly imagine the consequences of the loss of Hawaii by the United States (to be continued......