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In the White House presidential office, Woodrow held a closed-door meeting to discuss the current complex and volatile international situation. Admiral Benson, Admiral Robert E. Koontz, Chief of the Naval Command Department, and others participated. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info╔╗ Netizens hand-hit

"How did the Chinese Empire reply?" After everyone was seated, Woodrow asked first.

Gore replied: "We categorically deny that our submarine appeared in the waters around Japan, that our submarine was missing in the Atlantic, and that it is suspected that it was sunk by a German submarine, or that it was sunk by a British anti-submarine destroyer as a German submarine." ”

Marshall asked worriedly, "How did they reply?" ”

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire did not reply, but our ambassador to China replied that 'the Chinese Empire did not take it to heart, they firmly believe that their naval counter-submarine power is so strong that they sink as many submarines as they want,'" Gore said. ”

Benson said with a very bad complexion: "It's too arrogant! Sink more than 20 of our submarines, we have to settle this account! ”

Robert smiled bitterly: "With our current strength, it is not enough to compete with the Chinese Empire. ”

Benson said displeasedly, "That's not what you said before! You are the one who is clamoring to demonstrate against the Chinese Empire! ”

Robert smiled helplessly and said, "At this time and that time, the hidden powerful military power of the Chinese Empire is too terrifying. ╔╗ Our intelligence system is really bad, the Chinese Empire's aircraft carrier battle group, advanced anti-submarine hunting ships, powerful Cat Demon fighters and H1N1 bombers, white phosphorus bombs, armored combat vehicles, etc., we have not discovered these key weapons that can change the situation of the war in time, so that our strategic decision was wrong from the beginning, we should not have engaged in a large-scale arms race with the Chinese Empire, let alone an alliance with Japan to completely offend them. ”

Marshall sighed and said, "Our intelligence department has indeed made a mistake, but who would have thought that the Chinese Empire was so far-sighted in this regard, and they seem to know the future direction of the world like prophets." ”

"That's one of the reasons we wanted to absorb Japan in the first place, because Japan is also a yellow race, and their culture is similar to that of the Chinese Empire, and we planned to use Japanese spies to penetrate the Chinese Empire in order to gain valuable strategic intelligence," Woodrow said. Unfortunately, for some reason, the Chinese Empire was guarding against Japan from the beginning, so much so that the intelligence officers of the Japanese Special High School were unable to obtain this key information. ”

Marshall said suddenly: "It is said that the Chinese Empire did not pay much attention to the small Japan, and it was their emperor Wang Chenhao who was prejudiced against Japan, which caused everyone in the Chinese Empire to regard Japan as the most dangerous enemy and always guard against it. ”

Woodrow nodded and asked, "Hasn't the Intelligence Bureau found out about Wang Chenhao's background?" ”

Marshall shook his head and said, "As if it appeared out of thin air, our intelligence bureau tried its best and spent hundreds of millions of dollars to find any information about him, which is enough to census the population of all countries in the world several times." ╔╗”

"A fan-like existence!" Woodrow muttered to himself, and then said: "Let's not talk about this, our focus should be on the construction of naval forces, this time the Chinese Empire discovered that our submarines appeared around Japan to transport supplies for Japan, they will definitely not give up." ”

"I think so too!" Benson said: "The Chinese Empire has crippled Japan, and it has not carried out the landing operation for a long time, is it afraid that it will be stuck in the quagmire of the Japanese archipelago and will not be able to extricate itself? Their real purpose should be to target us. ”

Marshall asked, "Why do you have to target us?" We have made a big concession and have not even fulfilled the US-Japan security treaty. Besides, our navy has given up on building battleships with 17-inch and 18-inch guns, which means that they have surrendered to the Chinese Empire, and they have no reason to target us again! ”

Woodrow said: "The two of them are called here today for this matter, I heard that your Admiralty is developing a super battleship that can carry an 18-inch gun, but is there such a thing?" ”

Benson and Robert looked at each other as if they were embarrassed to cough lightly and nodded, which was kind of acknowledgement.

"You guys!" Marshall looked at the two of them in amazement, and said angrily, "Isn't it already vetoed?" By doing so, you are continuing to argue with the Chinese Empire, and sooner or later a war will break out like Britain and Germany! ”

Benson retorted: "The Chinese Empire has already equipped 4 Yuan-class battleships with 17-inch guns, and the other 4 Ming-class battleships with 18-inch guns will be completed in a few months, and our battleships with only 16-inch guns are not at all the opponents of the Chinese Imperial Navy." ╔╗”

Woodrow asked, "Congress will soon find out about this matter, how many of you have seen privately, where did the funds come from?" ”

Benson glanced at Robert, who replied, "Two, North Carolina-class battleships, funded by the final payment of six South Dakota-class battleships. ”

Woodrow was quite dissatisfied, and suddenly said: "While Congress doesn't know about it, stop building immediately." ”

Benson smiled embarrassedly: "How to explain it, let's put it this way, if the construction of two North Carolina-class ships is stopped, then the funds for the six South Dakota-class battleships will not be recovered." The loss of stopping construction is even greater, and it is better to increase the allocation of funds to build them all. ”

Woodrow said angrily: "How can Congress make additional appropriations? ”

Marshall also sighed: "If the Chinese Empire learns that we have deceived them, it will be very serious consequences." ”

Benson looked like a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, and said: "If we don't allocate funds, the six South Dakota-class battleships will not be completed, and our sea power will be even more vulnerable at that time." ”

Robert said suddenly: "It's better to do this, we have to ask Congress for money to build an aircraft carrier battle group anyway, and first use the money to build aircraft carriers to fill the hole." ”

Woodrow asked, "What about the aircraft carrier?" Is it shelving? Didn't you see the Chinese Empire crushing the Japanese Combined Fleet with an aircraft carrier battle group? If Congress had known that you had used the money you had used to build capital ships for aircraft carriers, you would have died even worse. ╔╗”

Benson said indifferently: "A symbolic modification of a few merchant ships is enough, anyway, the aircraft carriers of the Chinese Empire are also converted from merchant ships, why do we have to spend a lot of money to build them alone?" ”

Robert also echoed: "In fact, the aircraft carrier battle group is not so powerful, its carrier-based aircraft have a small bomb load, that is, it can sink the kind of battleships that are too thinly armored in the Japanese Navy, and our capital ships cannot be sunk by aircraft, so there is no need to develop aircraft carriers." I think Benson's suggestion is okay, but it's already at this point, and if you don't save us, then we're going to die. ”

Woodrow glared at the two of them angrily, if it weren't for his own, he would have taken them to court long ago.

"It looks like there's no better way," Marshall said. ”

Woodrow nodded and said, "Okay, I'll see if I can get as much money out of Congress as I can." ”

Benson and Robert were overjoyed and quickly thanked the president for his help.

Then, several people discussed how to cheat money from Congress, and left after making a plan.

Three days later, Woodrow submitted a report to Congress saying that the Chinese Empire had discovered the secret export of supplies from the United States to Japan, and judging from the fact that the Chinese Empire dared to directly sink more than 20 American submarines, the danger index of war between the two sides would increase dramatically, so Woodrow suggested that Congress approve his 1914 military budget plan for allocating $500 million to the navy, army, and air force. ╔╗

In terms of the Air Force, the United States has introduced the J-1 foreign trade fighter in the early days of the Chinese Empire, the Newport 17 in France, and the F1A4 Camel in Britain, and the performance is far inferior to the J-4 Cat Demon fighter of the Chinese Empire, the Havilland 2 in Britain, and the Newport 11 in France. At the same time, the US Air Force does not have bombers at all, and it also needs to import H1N1 avian flu bombers similar to the Chinese Empire as soon as possible.

In view of the impact of the fierce air war in Europe, the US Congress approved the US Air Force's plan to purchase 200 reconnaissance planes, 100 trainer planes, 1,000 advanced fighters, and 200 bombers in the next two years.

In terms of the Army, in view of the performance of the M10 combat vehicles in active service in the Imperial Chinese Army and the M07 combat vehicles exported to the Allied countries, the US Congress approved a funding of 40 million US dollars for the Army, requiring the Army to develop combat vehicle weapons and equipment, and purchase 500 combat vehicles and equipment for the Army in the future.

On the naval side, the US Congress, inspired by Woodrow's passionate speech, finally approved the construction of four North Carolina-class battleships, eight light cruisers, 20 destroyers, and 30 submarines, as well as approved the construction of five aircraft carriers to build a US aircraft carrier battle group.

At the same time, in view of the fact that the Japanese Combined Fleet was powerless under the attack of the aircraft of the Empire of China's aircraft carrier battle group, the US Navy requested that the warships in service be modified and a large number of anti-aircraft artillery systems installed in order to deal with the aircraft threat from the air, and this proposal was also approved.

As a result, after a year of silence, the United States became active again in the 1914 fiscal year.

The news of the increase in US military spending of $500 million was quickly learned by the intelligence department of the Chinese Empire, and the Supreme Command of the Chinese Empire also began to doubt the intention of the United States to spend on military spending.

Since the Chinese Empire only approved the construction of four Emeishan-class aircraft carriers by the Navy in the 1913 fiscal year, and did not approve the plan to build more powerful battleships, the Admiralty had a strong call this year, requiring the construction of Qing-class battleships equipped with 19-inch guns, but the Congress vetoed it, because at present, the Chinese Empire only has super battleships with 17-inch and 18-inch guns in the world, and there is no need to build new ships with larger caliber guns, and the existing battleships are enough to use.

Subsequently, the Admiralty retreated, since there was no way to build battleships, then they asked to build an escort fleet of aircraft carrier battle groups for aircraft carriers, that is, each capital aircraft carrier was fixed with a group of escort warships, including fast battleships, battle cruisers, heavy cruisers, light cruisers, hunting ships, submarines, etc., but Congress cut off the fast battleships and battle cruisers, and allowed the main aircraft carriers to be equipped with escort heavy cruisers, light cruisers and destroyers, as well as submarines.

However, the Navy's proposal to modernize all active warships was approved by the Diet in view of the results of the Sino-Japanese naval battle in the Eastern Ocean. All warships will be equipped with anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, especially the capital ships, except for the super-large caliber main guns that do not meet the requirements for anti-aircraft shooting, other small and medium-caliber main guns, secondary guns, and three- and four-stage rapid-fire guns have all been changed to high-level dual-purpose rapid-fire guns, so that they can shoot at the air.

Since there is not much space for the modification of small and medium-sized ships, it is basically almost enough to add a few anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, and there is no extra space for upgrading and modification. However, the capital ships of the Chinese Empire basically have a lot of room for upgrading, so they can be equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, which greatly improves the anti-aircraft firepower.

In terms of the Air Force, the Imperial Diet took into account the J-4 fighters and N1N1 bombers in service and exported them, so the combat aircraft of the Imperial Air Force needed to be upgraded. In view of the importance of future air supremacy, Congress was very generous to the Air Force, approving the Air Force to equip 1,000 Thunderbolt fighters and 200 H2N1 bombers. Of course, this is only the standing strength of the Imperial Air Force, which can be expanded at any time in the event of war.

On the Army side, the Reichstag focused on the Chariot Corps. At this time, the Imperial Army already had 2 armored divisions and 10 tank regiments, all of which were mechanized, but then the problems also came, the army did not have the navy to eat money before, and now the army's tank regiments have also begun to eat money, which made the congressmen hesitate. But in the end, it was approved to form 2 more armored divisions and 10 tank regiments in the next year.

In the end, Congress approved Guanghua's 14-year military supplementary budget, reaching 490 million dragon dollars, which is basically the same as that of the United States.

However, the military construction of the Chinese Empire is moving more in the direction of modernization, and the United States has always been led by the Chinese Empire, and is very confused about the development of future wars, so that the US military budget is basically spent on useless or outdated military strategies, which is a waste of money and cannot achieve the role of countering the Chinese Empire.

For example, the United States is still building battleships that can compete with the Yuan and Ming classes of the Chinese Empire, and it does not pay much attention to the air defense of the fleet. Although the U.S. Navy is also aware of the threat of aircraft to warships, it only adds anti-aircraft rapid-fire guns and rapid-fire machine guns to the capital ships, but the number is not large, because the space for the modification of U.S. capital ships is not very large.

However, Woodrow secured funding for the U.S. Navy to build aircraft carriers. However, because the US Navy Department still does not attach much importance to the development of aircraft carriers, after getting the money, it only refitted a number of experimental aircraft carriers, that is, some transport ships were basically equipped with straight-through decks and converted into aircraft carriers. The funds that were actually spent on the construction of aircraft carriers were diverted to other areas.

No matter how the United States formulates its military development strategy, the United States, which has been dormant for more than a year, has once again set off an arms race with the Chinese Empire and eventually headed for all-out confrontation.

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